Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-11-21

drops to suddenly cool in rounded form.
But as the metal did not thoroughly So
lidify before it reached the water, the
sudden contact of it with the latter caused
a slight indention on the surface of every
shot exactly at the point where it first
touched the liquid In fact it destroyed
or rather prevented perfect sphericity-a
slight imperfection to all appearance,
but quite sufficient to prevent the little
missiles from travelling in a straigh line
when sent from gun.
Mr.. Watts was bit of sportsman
himself, and seeing that with the shot as
then made he could not secure certain
aim, he investigated the matter, and soon
came to the conclusion that the imperfect
sphericity was the cause of the shot fly
ing wide of the mark The fault ascertain
ed, the question next was how to correct It,
He racked his braid day and night, hoping
to discover some method of making
perfectly round shot-many were the ex-
periments he made, but all in vain, and
he at last gave up the idea in despair.
But Mr. Watts had a wife who was
not so easily beaten, and she had set her
wits to work also. She was remark
ably quiet, thoughtful woman, and took
it into her head that, as there was cure
for almost every i'll. SO there might be a
remedy for bad shot She was one of
those who didn't know what impossibili-
ties meant This idea having entered her
mind, there it remained, and we all of us
know that it woman sets her heart on
accomplishing anything, accomplish it
she will. Day after day she watched
the process of shot-making, as she sat by
the water tank knitting away for dear
life but saying never word, though eye,
brain and finger were not unemployed for
q moment. So matters went on for many
months; Mr.. Watts became responding ;
his business fell off, and poverty stared
him in the face Rather than make i'm
perfect shot, he cared not to make any,
and he must soon have gone to ruin had
it not been for q dream
i One night Mr. Watts was suddenly
aroused from comfortable slumber by q
vigorous shake of his shoulder. Rub.
T bing his eyes, and "God blessing" him
self, he sat bolt upright in bed, and per
ceived with great surprise (for the. moor
was shining into the chamber that hi'
usually quiet wife was pacing the room
: exclaiming, not Eureka but something
} very much to the same effect; "Iv,
found out how to do it," and then sh
: added: "Get up directly, William, Pv
: made your fortunep'
Mr.. Watts was now thoroughly awake
: and Mrs. Watts related her "yision 0
the night"
t She had dreamed (or rather though
in her Sleep that, if the drops of moltel
lead were allowed to fall through the al
. from a considerable hight so as to &C
n thoroughly hardened before they reache
r the water, their perfectly spherical form
v would not be damages by the sudden cor
n tact Herewith. The next morning MI
e and Mrs Watts, in great secresy, trie
e the experiment. Opposite their hous
n was lofty old church tower-that of S,
: Mary Redcliffc-and this tower was 81
s lected as the scene of operations. Tb
y sexton was a ncighbor. From him th
G key was borrowed, and by eight o'cloc
It Mr.. watts was there with charcoal br;
G zier, some lead, bucket Of water, an
l. the shot card (or mold) as the implemer
If was called, through which the melte
IS lead was poured or strained to form drop
o You may be sure they locked themselvt
d in. The staircase of the tower was circl
n lar 50 that a "well' was formed from I'll
y top to the bottoln-just the thing r.
1t quired. At the summit Mr.. Watts fxe
l. his card" while at the bottom Mr.
d Watts stood beside the pail Of water, Q
st the added contents of which, before lon
so much might depend
All was at length ready, and dow
dropped the molten shower of glistcnir
globules of metal. Kissing and spatte
n ing they fell into the water, until all IL
l.. tnad above voa us,,d and thpn with d