How to make Wax. 143 



Another wax may be made in this way : 

 Melt some resin in a small vessel over a slow fire, and 

 when it has become fluid, take a pure white wax-candle, 

 light it, and let it drop into the melted resin ; there is 

 no rule as to quantity: observation must guide you. Pour 

 out upon a board that has been either greased or rubbed 

 with the candle, one-fourth of the composition; then 

 drop more wax into the remainder, and pour out one- 

 fourth more. Proceed in the same way with the other 

 two-fourths ; and thus you will have wax of four degrees 

 of hardness : that with least wax dropped from the candle 

 being for use in hot weather ; the others for different 

 degrees of temperature of the season. You may tie flies 

 in the hottest weather of summer with the hardest, and 

 in frosty weather with the softest wax. After the com- 

 position has become cool on the board, it should be well 

 worked in the hand as shoemakers' wax is. 



Always have by you wax, thread, silk, knife, and scis- 

 sors, and you are ready for any repairs. 



