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"YOU got the idea now," said the forelady to Francie. "You'll make a good stemmer in time. " She went away and Francie was on her own; the first hour of the first day of her first job.
Following the forelady's instructions, her left hand picked up a foot length of shiny wire. Simultaneously her right hand picked up a narrow strip of dark green tissue paper. She touched the end of the strip to a damp sponge, then, using the thumb and first two fingers of each hand as a rolling machine, she wound the paper on the wire. She placed the covered wire aside. It was now a stem.