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To Paint Whitewashed Walls
When the second coat of glue size (sce No. 2763) is dry, paint as follows: Mix the first coat of paint in the proportion of 1 gallon raw the best. The oil in this composition, being linseed oil to 15 pounds white lead, ground in dissolved by the lime, wholly disappears; oil, and 1 gill of dryer. Second coat: 1 gal- and, uniting with the whole of the other inlon raw linseed oil, 25 pounds white lead gredients, forms a kind of calcareous soap. In ground in oil, and 1/2 gill dryer. (The lead putting in the Spanish white, be careful that it should be the best.) Then finish either in is finely powdered and strewed gently over gloss or flat color, the same as if it were wood work with one good coat of priming. Shade all the coats of paint, as near as you can, to the color you wish to finish in. Mix the third and fourth coats the same as the first, that is, about the same thickness for a gloss finish, and a little thinner for a flat finish.