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152 The plumbob, trowel, level, the wall-scaffold, the
 * work of walls and ceilings, or any mason-work,

The steam-engine, lever, crank, axle, piston, shaft,
 * air-pump, boiler, beam, pulley, hinge, flange,
 * band, bolt, throttle, governors, up and down
 * rods,

The ship's compass, the sailor's tarpaulin, the stays
 * and lanyards, the ground tackle for anchoring or
 * mooring, the life-boat for wrecks,

The sloop's tiller, the pilot's wheel and bell, the yacht
 * or fish-smack—the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot
 * steamboat, under full headway, with
 * her proud fat breasts, and her delicate swift-flashing
 * paddles,

The trail, line, hooks, sinkers, and the seine, and
 * hauling the seine,

The arsenal, small-arms, rifles, gunpowder, shot, caps,
 * wadding, ordnance for war, and carriages;

Every-day objects, house-chairs, carpet, bed, counterpane
 * of the bed, him or her sleeping at night,
 * wind blowing, indefinite noises,

The snow-storm or rain-storm, the tow-trowsers, the
 * lodge-hut in the woods, the still-hunt,

City and country, fire-place, candle, gas-light, heater,
 * aqueduct,

The message of the Governor, Mayor, Chief of Police
 * —the dishes of breakfast, dinner, supper,

The bunk-room, the fire-engine, the string-team, the
 * car or truck behind,

The paper I write on or you write on, every word we
 * write, every cross and twirl of the pen, and the
 * curious way we write what we think, yet very
 * faintly,