The Woodpeckers
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Nor does the likeness vanish as we think how in their long tunnels inside their mountains of gold and iron and silver the delv- ing miners are picking and prying and picking to lengthen their burrows just as the woodpeck- ers peck and pry and peck inside their wooden mountain, the tree-trunk. Which shall we call the woodpecker — a carpenter or a miner ?
What are the miner's tools ? Pick and drill, are they not? What are the woodpecker's?
The same. Certainly we shall see, if .we stop to think, t...hat it is not a chisel that he uses, as we sometimes say. A chisel is a knife driven by blows of a hammer ; like a knife its effective- ness depends upon the sharpness and length of its cutting edge. But a woodpecker's bill is not a cutting tool. It is a wedge, but a wedge work- ing on a different principle from a knife-edge.
Look at this one and observe that, though strong and stout, it is not sharp and has no true cut- Digitized by Google 70 THE WOODPECKERS ting edge. It is a tapering, sqnare-ended, flat- sided tool, rather six-sided at the base and holding its bevel and angles to the tip.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Nor does the likeness vanish as we think how in their long tunnels inside their mountains of gold and iron and silver the delv- ing miners are picking and prying and picking to lengthen their burrows just as the woodpeck- ers peck and pry and peck inside their wooden mountain, the tree-trunk. Which shall we call the woodpecker — a carpenter or a miner ?
What are the miner's tools ? Pick and drill, are they not? What are the woodpecker's?
The same. Certainly we shall see, if .we stop to think, t...hat it is not a chisel that he uses, as we sometimes say. A chisel is a knife driven by blows of a hammer ; like a knife its effective- ness depends upon the sharpness and length of its cutting edge. But a woodpecker's bill is not a cutting tool. It is a wedge, but a wedge work- ing on a different principle from a knife-edge.
Look at this one and observe that, though strong and stout, it is not sharp and has no true cut- Digitized by Google 70 THE WOODPECKERS ting edge. It is a tapering, sqnare-ended, flat- sided tool, rather six-sided at the base and holding its bevel and angles to the tip.
What to read after The Woodpeckers?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm to read onlineMoreLess
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