Banking service chronicle Published this article page no 2 The wheelwright was also the blacksmith and the tinker of our locality. He and his apprentices did all sorts of odd jobs ó plumbing carpentry cabinet-making forging pots and pans overhauling carriages and carts repairing boats and barges and a hundred other things. The things that he did not undertake would make a shorter list than those he did. We could not imagine a wizard ís cavern more fascinating than our wheelwrightís workshop. Its furnaces big one and some smaller ones were a great attraction. What interested us most about these furnaces was the intense glow the coal gave when the bellows worked. It was also engrossing to watch the red hot metal bars hammered into shape. Cascades of sparks flew as from a fountain of fire. It was like fireworks at the Diwali festival! It took our breath away to see the bullocks shod with iron hoofs and the cartwheels fitted with iron bands and then dipped into water. How the sizzling steam came out ó vapour coloured by the light of the furnaces banking service chronicle monthly magazine buy
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