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The next morning it should be unrolled and examined for soft spots 

 where the salt has not drawn ont the moisture. If any such spots are 

 found thej' should be rubbed well with salt and, in any case, the wliole 

 skin re-salted, and again rolled up. The following day the skin should 

 be unrolled, the salt shaken off, and the skin stretched to its natural 

 size and shape. It should then be dried, skin side out, in an airy, 

 shady place. 



Wljieji a dried skin is to be dressed it should first be placed in water 

 until thoroughly softened. This process can be hastened by working 

 and twisting the skin about from time to time. The soaking should not 

 last more than twenty-four houi-s ; and in warm weather skins left in 

 water over twelve hours may "slip,"' so the quicker the skin is softened 

 the safer it will be. 



Fig. 1 



When softened, the skin should be placed on a half-round beam 

 (figure 2, a) and all skin-like tissue and grease on the flesh side removed 

 with a square-edged steel fleshing tool. The back of a thin-bladed 

 butcher-knife can be used for this work, after a piece of soft wfKxl has 

 been stuck on the point of the knife so as to make a second handle. 



If the fur as well as the skin itself is very greasy the skin should 

 be hung up to drain for twelve hours and then soaked in gasoline over-, 

 night to remove the grease. Be sure to keep the gasoline away from fire. 



A tablespoonful of the washing powder known as ' ' Pearline ' ' should 

 now be dissolved in two quarts of luke-warm (not hot) water, and the 

 skin placed in it and worked until thoroughly limp, with no hard dry 

 spots left. The pelt should then be hiuig iip to drain for a few minutes 

 (do not wring it out), after which the tan liquor should be painted C)n 

 the flesh side with a clean paint brush. 



