- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 166
- 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.