The spinning-wheel. That’s one of the few things that I remember Uncle George saying to me: “When Adam delved and Eve span, where then was the gentleman? Always remember that, boy. Don’t you forget that, ever, that, when you’re out in that world out there.”

“When Adam delved and Eve span, where then was the gentleman?” Didn’t mean a darn thing to me back then – I was nine, after all. Seen all too much of the sense of it since then, though.

And Uncle George and Aunt, they lived it, too, didn’t they? He delved, on the farm, and she spun her thread on that spinning-wheel. Adam and Eve, sort-of.

Except I never really knew who they were. Still don’t.