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Title: The Medley

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32467]

Language: English

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The MEDLEY.

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PORTLAND: BAILEY & NOYES

THE MEDLEY.

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PORTLAND: BAILEY & NOYES.

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ANCHOR.

I love to look on an Anchor. Like a good friend who helps you in
trouble, it holds the ship steady in a storm. Its flukes sink deep into
the bottom of the sea, or cling to the rocks, and nothing but a great
storm can separate it from the cable which is fastened to the vessel.
Anchors are of solid iron and very heavy; and cables are made of hemp or
of iron chain. Large ships have four anchors, small vessels two. Hope is
called the anchor of the soul, because, as the ship is held by the
anchor which lies in the sea, so the soul is supported by Hope which is
cast in Heaven.

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WIND-MILL.

The Wind-Mill has sails fixed to very long poles, and when the wind
blows strong, round go the wings. As the wings blow round, they carry
round a large stone inside the house; this stone rubs on top of another
mill-stone, and corn is put between them, which is thus broken and
ground into meal. We cannot eat corn till it is ground; but horses can.
Some mill-stones are likewise carried round by a stream of running
water, and some by the steam of boiling water. There are a number of
water-mills on the Mill-dam which leads from Boston to Roxbury.

There is a wind-mill in Boston, which stands in Sea-street, near the new
bridge to South-Boston.

There is a steam-mill next to the iron-works at South-Boston, which
grinds corn and grain.

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FLAG.

Here waves the Flag, which all nations respect. It is sometimes called
The Colours. In war, the soldiers carry a Flag waving over their heads,
to show,