I also need to share this story with you....this person put it best about "Pop Goes The Weasel"
"The origin of “Pop Goes the Weasel” is not the cobbler’s bench story as is so often told. A “weasel” was a yarn winder. On my wife’s 1840′s yarn winder, the “monkey” in the nursery rhyme is the metal pin on the wooden gear. It slowly “chases” its way around and when 100 yards of yarn have been wound, the “monkey” crawls underneath the long wooden strip and when it releases, Pop!! goes the weasel. It scares the daylights out of you when it happens and you could see how kids would find the mystery of when the Pop!! was going to happen to be quite interesting. Stuart"
A Lazy Kate
I'm wondering if it wouldn't hold an item like this? I can remember getting cord/twine from the old hardware store and they had a winding mechanism that held the wooden "card"
