SC - That Dratted Peel and Bowl

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings.  I've (on and off) been puzzling over where the bowl would 
have been attached to the peel and am tossing out the following.

1) If it were to be attached to just a handle, not the broad shovel 
end, would not the instructions have said something like "take a broken 
peel and attach..."?  Why bother to mention "pele" at all if it weren't 
to be attached to the part that changed a stick to a peel?

2) My imagination senses that balance would be far better on the broad 
shovel than on the more narrow handle. My modern peel's handle is about 
2" wide.  Even with one some 3-4" wide (which would be hard to grasp in 
one hand, if one did indeed use only one hand), a full bowl with 
liquid, affixed to a handle some 3-4" wide, would tend to cause the 
hand/arm to sway and possible tip over far more easily than if the bowl 
were attached to a more stable shovel end.  Or am I imagining something 
that isn't true?

3) Why do folk object to the bowl being (nailed?) to the broad end?  
What is illogical about that?  Why do you assume it must be a broken 
off handle??  Inquiring minds want to know.

Alys Katharine (Whee!  We have a snow day today!  I don't have to go to 
work!)


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