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Iron and

steel are

very

obedient.

Whether it

were not

possible

to make a

spinner

that would

not rebel,

nor

mutter,

nor scowl,

nor strike

for wages,

nor

emigrate?

At the

solicitation

of the

masters,

after a

mob and

riot at

Staley

Bridge,

Mr.

Roberts of

Manchester

undertook

to create

this

peaceful

fellow,

instead of

the

quarrelsome

fellow God

had made.

After a

few

trials, he

succeeded,

and, in

1830,

procured a

patent for

his

self-acting