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and bottom pivots. In this case the pot was hung by a 

 hook or a short hanger anywhere along the bar. Here again 

 a fine feeling for beautiful enrichment is shown in the tulip 

 with its leaves, and the twists in the square bar. It is 



Chimney-Crane with 

 Three Motions 



interesting in these to see 

 how the turn came closer 

 in the middle of the twist, 

 where the heated bar was 

 hottest. 

 Where there was no crane there was- 

 a chimney bar built into the flue some six 

 or seven feet above the hearth. It seems strange 

 that this should not have been always- of iron, but 

 it was most commonly of wood. 

 Over this was hooked the hanger, which could be made 

 to hang higher or lower by means of the loop and ratchet. 

 Some of the older ones, that may date from the sixteenth 

 century, have a well-wrought fleur-de-lis at the top. 



Through hundreds of years there w T as no variation in the 

 general form and plan of these hangers, except that in some 

 (not of the oldest date), the loop, that at its lower end caught 

 in the teeth of the ratchet, at its upper end played, not 

 in a hook-shaped ring, which allowed of only such lateral 

 working as was due to misfitting, or the slight play of the 

 top of the rod over the chimney bar, but round a knob worked 

 on the low r er end of the bar. This allowed of complete rotary 



