[Illustration: WOODEN DOOR CARVED WITH "ELI WHITNEY."]
[Footnote 1: See map in paragraph 135.]
[Footnote 2: The house is no longer standing, and the door has
disappeared.]
[Footnote 3: Chores: getting in wood, feeding cattle, etc.]
176. What Eli Whitney used to do in his father's little workshop;
the fiddle.--Eli Whitney's father used that little wooden building
as a kind of workshop, where he mended chairs and did many other small
jobs. Eli liked to go to that workshop and make little things for
himself, such as water-wheels and windmills; for it was as natural
for him to use tools as it was to whistle.
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