Then I had a boy to blow by bellows, now I have one hundred and fifteen men.

Do you see them over there watching the heads cook over the charcoal furnace, as your cook, if she knows what she is about, watches the chops broiling?
Each of them is hammered out of a piece of iron, and is tempered under the inspection of an experienced man.

Every handle is seasoned three years, or until there is no shrink left in it.

Once I thought I could use machinery in manufacturing them; now I know that a perfect tool can't be made by machinery, and every bit of the work is done by hand." "In telling this little story," said Parton, "I have told thousands of stories.

Take the word 'hammer' out of it, and put 'glue' in its place, and you have the history of Peter Cooper.