An idler is a watch that wants both hands. As useless when it goes as when it stands.

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Full Text
An idler is a watch that wants both hands. As useless when it goes as when it stands.
Listed on Page Number
276
Sampler Worked By
Lucinda (?) Brooks
Date of Sampler
1816
Place Sampler Made
Gloucester, Mass
Sampler Listed on Page
132
Author/Publication/Country/Date
William Cowper author/Retirement, Line 681/Familiar quotations with parallel passages from various writers, by J. C. Grocott; with an American appendix by Anna L. Ward, 6th ed./London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. [189-?].
Notes
Lucinda completed this sampler at the age of 12. The quote is taken from the works of William Cowper.