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THE FIREMAN.
BY S. BARING GOULD, M. A.
Author of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, &c., &c.
There are certain men employed in iron-furnaces to work up the molten iron before it is run into molds—these are called puddlers. They have huge rakes and spuds which they strike into the smelted ore, working it about till all the earthly particles, and those other things existing in hammered, but never found in cast, iron, and the nature of which we hardly understand, are utterly burnt out. This life of the metal appears in keen scintillations on the surface; and as soon as they are no longer visible—as soon as the glowing molten preserves its uniform glare of the muddy white—the iron is considered dead and is to be ran into molds.
Now, in order that a man may be a good workman, he must become part and parcel of his work. The fruit of the toil must, in like manner, become so intimately united with its artificer, that in it he shall really, and not metaphorically, live.
The sculptor casts his own spirit into his carving; so that when the framer of the statue is dead as to his boy, as to his soul he lives. Thus for centuries the artist can still do good works, when his pious handicraf
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