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flat bar and is loosely 

 riveted, so that it 

 plays easily. The 

 two hooks hold the 

 kettle. One of them 

 is fitted with a spring 

 clip, so that in the 

 event of an upward 

 jerk from a log burn- 

 ing away at one end 

 and striking upward 

 at the other, or any 

 such mischance, the 

 kettle would not be 

 dislodged. The use 

 of it is to fill the 

 teapot without tak- 

 ing the kettle off the 

 fire. This, as will 

 easily be seen, is done 

 by depressing the 

 snake-shaped handle, 

 whose form suggested 

 to the smith who 

 made it the little 

 snake's head as an 

 appropriate finish to 

 its end. In the pic- 

 ture the kettle does 

 not hang level, but 

 it is in the position 

 that it naturally takes 

 after the first tip- 

 ping. 



