Lock
Above the river there were many family altars. This
one was protected by this most unusual lock. I wonder
what the key looks like? Here is Kathy's description:
The key is a bar as long as the lock with a rectangle at 90 degrees
to the shaft (as if you had a branding iron and were going to make
a rectangle-shaped brand mark); inside the lock itself are nearly
parallel thin bars, just as wide as the rectangle in the key and kind
of like the tweezers you find on the end of a Swiss Army . When
the two parts of the lock are fitted together ("locked"), the internal
tweezer-like bars spring open and prevent the two parts from being
separated. To open the lock, the key is inserted and slid down
along the tweezer-like bars, from the attached end sliding toward
the open end; as the rectangle on the key gets close to the "open"
end of the "tweezer," it squeezes the two parts back together and,
presto! the lock can be pulled apart again.
Ok... Just goes to show that a picture is worth a thousand words!
