They are also cheap and hard to set on fire!
 
Charles M. Keller
Collections Manager
 
At 03:00 PM 4/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I have also heard (seems to me it came from a blacksmith working at restored
>Fort
>Langley near Vancouver, B.C.), that dirt floors in a blacksmith shop had the
>additional advantage of being softer (would "give" more than, say, a stone,
>brick or concrete floor) for the workers who had to stand on them all day
>long.  Would this be a significant reason to use dirt floors?
>
>Mike Polk
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