Possible Clues:

• What a nuisance wtih the French to have to work with mortar!
• Mortar-grinding tool
• Pharmacist's grinder
• What a nuisance to make ground with the French!
• One works with mortar. What a nuisade it's with the French too
• For work with mortar
• Club for grinding
• It sounds soft enough to make he bits of steel go with the mortar
• You get one for a pound
• One that does the groundwork with mortar