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To Paint an Old House

Take | breakage or cutting, take 1 pound American 3 gallons water and 1 pint flax seed; boil 1/2 pearlash, 3 pounds quick stone lime, slack the gallons water and 1 pint flax seed; boil + pearlash, 3 pounds quick stone lime, slack the hour; take it off and add water enough to lime in water, then add the pearlash, and make 4 gallons; let it stand to settle; pour make the whole about the consistence of paint. off the water in a pail, and put in enough of Apply it to both sides of the glass, and let it Spanish white to make it as thick as white- remain for 12 hours, when the putty will be wash; then add + pint linseed oil; stir it so softened that the glass may be taken out of well and apply with a brush. If the whiting the frame without being cut, and with the does not mix readily, add more water. Flax greatest facility. (See No. 2786.) seed, having the nature of oil, is better than glue, and will not wash off as readily.