Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-10-14

Nr. CNanCy tOOk lclcT rom his pocket,
and busted himself for ten or fifteen minutes,
in drawing upon the back of it with his PEN
Gil, various geometrical figures totally in
comprehensive to his wife, aud at last he
observed, as if soliloquizing yes, il can be
done, and | can do it. There might be "a
chair invented with machinery attached,
which would set il going or stop it at pleas
urc, and am pretty sure | have hi, upon
the plan
Il would not care about having such a
chair, Mr.. CLANCY: the common plan is
good enough; all | want is to have this
made to rock more easily. | never saw the
chair vet which could not stop, with my
own weight and strength, whenever pleas
cd said Mrs. CLANCY.
But how delightful it would he to have
one that would rock exactly at the proper
degree, just as you might be in the notion J
'Onc way of rocking suits me very well,
my dear; you know am not very n0tiOn-
aaie.'
you will change your opinion vastly, Mrs.
CLANCY, when YOU see what can be done
BY human ingenuity. will show YOU somc-
thing original in the chair line one Of these
days. promise YOU
'Why, my dear, what has put that into
your head; you are no cabinet maker
mo, but | am going to be one of the men
that govern cabinet makers, said Mr.. Chan
cy.
Rather than you should 90 to that troub-
lie and expense would put up with the one
| have just as it is; 'let well enough alone
is a pretty good maxim to go by" returned
his wife.
you are mistaken my dear; if every
body were to follow it, there would be hut
little occasion for inventive genius. The
march Of Improvement is glorious thing,
and these are tie times for it,
Mrs. CLANCY heard nothing farther of the
rocking char for two or three weeks, and
might have supposed that her husband bad
ceased to think about it, had he not INDUCED
in reveries more frequently than formerly
and always finished them with taking pen
Gil from his pocket and drawing, or flourish
ing invisible lines with his finger. At last
he returned one day from his business, at
an unusual hour, and after he had watched
the front parlor windows for while, with
some anxiety, a furniture carriage stopped
at the door.
'Ilere's your rocking chair, my dear,
said he, 'such rocking-c chair as the city
has never produced before, assure YOU
Mrs. CLANCY naturally walked to the win
dow 10 see it unloadcd. 'Why, it is very
much like other rocking chairs said she,
'onll that there is some odd clumsv-lookng
work between the rockers, which i, would
look much better without
That work, Mrs. CLANCY, is the novelty
and the Improvement That's my inven-
ton, and IA happy one it is"
BY this time tie chair was deposited in
the back parlor, and Mr.. CLANCY, in an &C.
stacy, got down upon his knees to explain
the operation of the machinery. As the
chair now stands, my dear said he, 4, is no
rocking-clair at al-mcrcIv Il common arm
char-sce, it won't bulge an inch. Now,
turn this screw, so; enough to loosen this
perforated block, as shall call it, through
which the rocker runs-now, the one on the
other side; and by moving them along a
little distance, it will rock about like your oil!
ono; now, move it a little farther, aud You
see it rocks much more freely, and SO on
Both blocks. you observe, must be MAYED
exactly TO the same distance; now, to keep
them in their places, You must turn the
screws the other way, until You get them
permanently fixed. Isn't it the very thing,
my dcar!'
Bless me, Mr.. Clancy! If YOU had
Just ordered in a stick Of wood, or a broom
stick, and laid it on the floor under the rock
erS, at the place required, ii would have an
swrred Just as well ~
A StlcI; wood. a broom stick in vouI
parlor, Mrs. Chancy! wonder at you-
why. my dear, this chair will be model iol
the whole trade y
'And if | want to rock myself either more
or less, must get down on the floor anC
work with these screws for ten or f'cer
minu,esl'
'Why, Mrs. Clancy, am aStonshcd a
You but that's awals tho way with the ig-
| mean the unini,ia,cd; they always obicc
to ANYTHING they are not accustomed to-
Franklin was laughed at for bringing dowr
electricity, and Fulton for talking abou
steamboats, y
well, well, Mr.. CLANCY said the lady
seeing that her husband grew warm, ~,
won't talk any more about the plan, bu, you
certainly have gone to an unnecessary cX
pensr. Now, if you had taken that monr'
and bought me "A new workstand, which
need very much, YOU would have spent it t.
some ADVANTAGE
- workstand. my dear? am muc
obliged to you for the idea; it will be til
very thing for me; III invent YOU one'
Il don't want one invented said Mr.,
CLANCY, thinking that something must hav
gone wrong with her husbands brain an
she used the same arguments as against tn
chair, but without effect. Mr.. CLANCY wa
bent upon the exercise of his mechanic
faculties, and returned To his drawing an
calculating with renewed interest, and III
workstand vas daily projected. In II,
, meantime, the chair was not overlooked
He seldom entered the house without bring
ing some acquaintance along to do honor
his invention, and on every occasion I'll
9 machinery was made to 90 through its who
duty, and of all seats in the house, non