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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear All, once again. In searching for my
weaving books, I've so far located one pattern manual and two on rag rugs, none
appropriate. Must dig under several landslides of Boy Scout projects, art
materials, magazines, and stuff thrown into the so-called studio, but I have
revealed too much about myself.... I did find <EM>The Return of the
Native</EM>, which I do realize is written in fictional Wessex dialect.
Also, I came across a <EM>Dickens Dictionary</EM> with Two Raddles, Mr.
and Mrs., the latter being the landlady of Mr. Bob Sawyer, sister to Mrs.
Cluppins, and "a thorough shrew". I have not yet had the pleasure of
reading <EM>The Pickwick Papers</EM>, but to refresh the minds of those of you
who may have, Mr. Bob Sawyer met Mr. Pickwick at Mr. Wardle's. Later, he
hangs out his medical shingle as "Sawyer, late Nockemorf". He has a nice
place, but " half the drawers got nothing in 'em, and the other half don't open.
" Indeed, "hardly any thing real in the shop but the leeches; and <EM>they
</EM>are second hand". Just one of Sawyer's advertising ploys is to send a
boy to a house with vague directions on a bottle of pills, with his name in big
letters, which each occupant of the house looks at, reads, and passes on.
The next day, the boy collects the errant bottle with many apologies. "We
have got one four-ounce bottle that's been to half the houses in Bristol and
hasn't done yet." More later, Linda, of the raddled brain.</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net"
title=lindafowens@netzero.net>lindafowens</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:fictionary@plover.com"
title=fictionary@plover.com>fictionary@plover.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 30, 2001 10:35
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Another Raddle</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear All, I am still learning the "rules" of the
game, so I was a little miffed when nobody believed my real def of
"raddle" to be a weaving term, as I expressed in comments to
Elliott. I just realized, with the help of Judith and Fran, that you
demand sources. I supposed that my weaving teacher Norma Smayda, who has
been Pres. of the Weavers' Guild of America, would be enough of a source, but
you do not know her or me. I thought that my experience teaching weaving
occasionally in the past would be enough, but you demand print, as you
ought. I will get back to you. "Someone" must have moved the dozen
or so weaving books I own, and it was time to finish organizing my stacks of
various books and videotapes and art materials, anyway. My interests and
collections are varied and profuse, alas. Somewhere in this vast
accumulation of treasures there is a copy of Hardy's <EM>The Return of the
Native</EM>, where The Reddleman is a character (he sells the sheep
dip). I alway hoped to find more info on reddle sheep dip, as I have a
number of outdoor animals, (but no sheep); but "reddle"<EM> </EM>wasn't in my
dictionary. Perhaps it was raddle after all. Perhaps also, there is the
origin of "dyed in the wool". Probably some Aussie films (the ones
with the sheep-shearing contests) could have a bit of dyeing, as well.
Is the sheep dip against parasites or in lieu of branding?. More
later, when I find stuff.
Linda</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>