This is -passed through a molding-machine ticles are all made from pure Para gum, which is ‘ant quantities in many localities, it is rarely of suffi- which turns out pencils shaped in the form desired, thoroughly masticated in huge powerful masticating cient purity to be available for pencil… … Furthermore, the requisite degree of by sucking the flower, which is an attrac- hardness is obtained by the subsequent tive-looking, very light lavender blossom. operation, viz., the compressing of the lead THE MAKING OF A LEAD PENCIL. Cattle in a few instances have been pois- and shaping it in to…
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