Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

It was lately stated, that in England a sheep had been sheared, and a coat completed of the wool, in 13 hours, and 20 minutes. At the woolen manufactory at Manchester, New-York, the wool for a coat was picked, greased, carded, roped and spun- the yarn was warped out into the loom and woven- the cloth was fulled, colored, four times shorn, pressed and carried to the tailors, and made into a coat, all in 9 hours and 15 minutes. The shearing if added might have been done in ten minutes and a pair of shoes made of the tanned sheep skin, in about as many hours.