Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 339
m tarred. The calking is paper edges (Fig. 2). Use good paste, not glue, forthe heat of the candle wax when poured over willmelt the glue and detach the paper calking. Melt a piece of wax or adamantine candle inshallow saucepan until it becomes a clear liquid.Do not use it scalding hot, but take it… … FIG. I. A FLEET OF BUTTER-DISH BOATS. and the tar candle wax Figure 2 shows whereto calk. Cut strips of not too stiff wrapping-paperabout one and a half inches wide and paste themacross the two bottom ends and down the side the cracks where the wood laps at the ends, andentirely covering the…
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