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Magazine some thirty years ago. It is composed of three 

 parts tallow, one oz. yellow resin, melted in a pipkin, and 

 rubbed into the boots when just warm. The soles and 

 uppers to be treated alike until they will soak no more. At 

 first it will slightly stain the stockings. If a good colour 

 and polish is desirable, a little bees-wax dissolved in tur- 



Fig. 19. 



pentine, and mixed with a little lamp black, may be well 

 rubbed in, and when the turpentine has evaporated the 

 boots will be brilliant enough to charm the fishes, and be 

 warm and comfortable, besides lasting twice as long as they 

 otherwise would. Curriers' " dubbing," in which a little 

 resin has been melted, will answer as a substitute, but it 



