"We get used to everything in time, I suppose," Thornton answered; then he added whimsically: "Still, I don't think I should ever get used to riding in an automobile." A hearty laugh came from behind them, and turning they saw Mr. Clark and Mr. Munger, the manager. "I came to hunt you up," said Mr. Clark. "I have finished my interview with Mr. Bailey, and it seemed to me that by this time you must have finished spinning your next-winter's overcoat, Don." "But I haven't, father," retorted Donald, smiling into his father's face. "I have not even begun to make the cloth at all." "The yarn is not spun yet, sir," put in the young man who was with them. "You are a slow guide, Mac, I fear," Mr. Munger laughed, laying a kindly hand on his bookkeeper's shoulder. "That is the chief fault with you Scotchmen--you are too thorough. Now let us hurry along. These gentlemen must get back to Boston to-day, you know." Mr. Munger bustled ahead, conducting his visitors across a bridge and into the next mill. Here was the carding room. Layers of wool entered the carding engine and were combed by a multitude of wire teeth until all the fibers lay parallel; the thin film of wool then passed into a cone-like opening and came out later in a thick strand of untwisted fibers. "It is now ready to go to the drawing-frames," Mr. Munger explained. "You will notice how these drawing-frames pull the wool into shape for twisting and spinning, drawing it out to uniform size and finally winding it on bobbins. The machine is a complicated one to explain, but you can watch and see what it does." "How wonderful it is that machinery can do all this work," Mr. Clark observed thoughtfully. "Yes, it is," Mr. Munger agreed. "Years ago every part of the process was done by hand. Little by little, however, machines have been perfected until now we have contrivances that seem almost human. Shall we go now and see the yarn spun?" When they reached the spinning room with its clatter of shifting bobbins Mr. Munger turned to Donald. "I wonder if you know," he said, "that wool is worked into two different kinds of yarn--worsted yarn and woolen yarn. The fibers for worsted yarn are long and lie nearly parallel, and when woven result in a smooth surface. Broadcloth is made from worsted yarn. Woolen yarn, on the other hand, has its fibers lying in every direction and all these loose ends, when woven, give a rough surface. Of course after the cloth is milled it comes out smooth, but it is not as smooth and fine as a worsted cloth." "I think I understand," Donald said. "Are we to see the cloth woven next?" "Yes. You know we weave nothing but woolens; you must go to a worsted mill to see the other kinds of cloth made. The processes, though, are much alike."