SKINNING 375 



awl, stiff wire in handle, commercial steel pen, stiff brush a 

 fourth of an inch through (No. 4, round, bristle, marking 

 brush), and a tAvo-ounce, large-mouth bottle for arsenic, plainly 

 marked with a POISON label. 



Tools, etc, shown one third size. 



Materials. — Two ounces white arsenic and 1 ounce alum mixed 

 together in the bottle with enough water to give the whole the 

 consistency of hasty pudding, 1 pound of good tow (to be obtained 

 from a furniture dealer), a bat of best cotton, black glass eyes 

 a little over i inch in diameter (black glass-headed pins of 

 the right size will do), -| pound of annealed iron wire about 

 No. 22 (Standard Wire Gauge), 2 pounds corn meal, 2 pounds 

 plaster of Paris, 1 pound of good clay, a spool of linen thread 

 No. 40, and bird stands. 



Skinning. — Remove all the cotton plugs which were placed 

 in your specimen at the time of shooting and substitute fresh 

 ones. Spread on your table a large newspaper, and you are 

 ready for work. 



