adhered he to the old gothic plan of his predecessors but formed it new and surprising in simplicity so that a little maiden could set it in motion.
6 And it came to pass when a great company of ladies and laundresses beheld the infant turn the wheel with wonderful ease and moreover saw the wheel move backwards as well as the way of the wheel whose revolution was always the same and also saw it move as by self instinct.
7 That they cried aloud with one voice saying, great and marvellous is the Mangle of Beetham.
8 And in process of time, the princesses and the nobles accompanied a certain great prince who came from a far country to carry away a royal beauty, even the eldest daughter of the King.
9 And behold as they passed on their way to view the wonders of the great temple of Paul, one of the damsels lifted up her azure eyes and beheld the Museum of Beetham fronting the temple of Dunstan.
10 At that instant the child was turning the wonderful Mill which laved the fine linen clean and white in the twinkling of an eye;
11 Also another child by its feeble arm was moving the newly invented Mangle.
12 And lo, one of the nobles cried, wherefore should we pass on further into the city, let us step aside and see this miracle.
13 Now it came to pass that the company alighted from their gilded chariots and went into the Museum, and marvelled much at the curious machines.
14 And when