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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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AGE, 32. s TOUR WITII MAJOR R. BAIRD SMITH
the brick-making line, are you ?' ` Why we've had a good deal
to do with making bricks, and may have again ; but we'll engage
that if we set up for ourselves, it shall be ten thousand miles
from you.' This seemed in some degree to set his mind
at rest. . . ."
" A dismal day, with occasional showers, prevented our
seeing Sheffield to advantage. On the whole, however, it is
more cheerful and has more of a country-town look than Leeds
a place utterly without beauty of aspect. At Leeds you have
vast barrack-like factories, with their usual suburbs of squalid
rows of brick cottages, and everywhere the tall spiracles of the
steam, which seems the pervading power of the place. Every-
thing there is machinery the machine is the intelligent agent, it
would seem, the man its slave, standing by to tend it and pick
up a broken thread now and then. At Sheffield . . . you might
go through most of the streets without knowing anything of the
kind was going on. And steam here, instead of being a ruler,
is a drudge, turning a grindstone or rolling out a bar of steel,
but all the accuracy and skill of hand is the Man's. And con-
sequently there was, we thought, a healthier aspect about the
men engaged. None of the Rodgers remain who founded the
firm in my father's time. I saw some pairs of his scissors in the
show-room still kept under the name of Persian scissors." 3'
From Sheffield Yule and his friend proceeded to Boston,
" where there is the most exquisite church tower I have ever
seen," and thence to Lincoln, Peterborough, and Ely, ending
their tour at Cambridge, where Yule spent a few delightful
days.
In the autumn the great Duke of Wellington died, and
Yule witnessed the historic pageant of his funeral. His furlough
was now nearly expired, and early in December he again
embarked for India, leaving his wife and only child, of a few
35 It would appear that Major Yule had presented the Rodgers with some specimens of Indian scissors, probably as suggestions in developing that field of export. Scissors of elaborate design, usually damascened or gilt, used to form a most important item in every set of Oriental writing implements. Even long after adhesive envelopes had become common in European Turkey, their use was considered over familiar, if not actually disrespectful, for formal letters, and there was a particular traditional knack in cutting and folding the special envelope for each missive, which was included in the instruction given by every competent Khoja, as the present writer well remembers in the quiet years that ended with the disasters of 1877.
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