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one end of the machine was a broad band of cloth, passing around
two rollers.  One roller was close to the wheels and other large
rollers of the machine itself.  The other was back from it a
little; and the cloth, being extended from one of these to the
other, formed a sort of flat table just before the machine.  The
girl who came to tend the machine immediately opened the great
bundle of wool, and then she took up a handful of it, and began
to spread it evenly over the cloth.  When she had got the cloth
pretty nearly covered she pulled a handle pretty near her, and
that, in some mysterious way or other, set the machinery
a-going.  The cloth, with all the wool upon it, began to move
towards the great rollers of the machine.  These rollers were
covered with card teeth, and the wool, as it was drawn in
between them, was carded fine, and spread evenly over all the
surface; and in a few minutes Jonas and Oliver found that it
began to come out at the