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MODERN BLACKSMITHING 



With these preliminary remarks we shall now begin 

 to make a few tools. We will begin with the black- 

 smith's tongs. I shall only give an idea how to forge 

 the jaws, and every man that needs to make them has 



Fig. 4. 



seen enough of this simple tool to know what kind is 

 needed, and what he has not seen will suggest itself 

 to every sensible smith. 



