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How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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The paper must mula for his crayons: Dried white tallow be passed or steeped in a mixture of glue and soap, 6 parts; white wax, 6 parts; lampblack, alum water. For transparent or semi-trans- 1 part. The soap and tallow are to be put parent paper, a mixture of starch, or dextrine and alum.

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