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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Pop Goes The Weasel


Now you know - "Pop Goes the Weasel" comes from this: Spinning weasels, aka yarn winders, like this (see far left) make a popping sound. "Each time the wheel turned, a wooden counter would move a notch until it hit a final peg and made a loud "pop." As the nursery rhyme said, "Pop goes the weasel."

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