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 RECIPES. 



GUT DYE. Take a handful of logwood chips* to a 

 pint of cold hard water, and place in an earthenware 

 vessel, and gently heat it near a slow fire, or in an 

 oven until a few degrees off boiling point, then add 

 a small portion of copperas or sulphate of iron 

 say of the size of a No. 4 shot. The whole should 

 be well stirred after the addition of the copperas. 

 This done, and the colour deemed correct, the gut 

 may be inserted in a loose coil. No tightness should 

 be permitted to exist about it, as it may cause a 

 divergency of shade in the places tightly bound, or 

 in any way compressed. A small piece of white 

 cotton may with safety be loosely wound around, 

 to hold the hank together. 



There are numbers of stains for gut in use, but 

 none are so well adapted to take off the surplus glaze 

 as the one given above. 



A very strong solution of green tea will tint drawn 

 gut, but for the enamelled it is not sufficiently 

 permanent or pronounced. Ink is largely used by" 

 amateur fishermen for gut staining. From the nature 

 of some of the usual ingredients the deleterious effects 

 are often deplorable. Inks are so variously made, 

 that it is at best a haphazard venture one that too 

 often proves deceptive and delusive. The tendency 

 of an excess of this substance is to rot the gut, and 



* It is often as well to use exclusively the larger pieces, as with 

 the very small, other substances are frequently mixed up designedly or 

 accidentally. 



