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Secrets of Art and Nature. : 
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Modern Curiofities. 
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To paint Timber^ work., or what k 
call'd Houfe (or V ulgar) Painting. 
\jUlgar Painting is the way and manner of colouring 
V all lortsof Wainfcot, Doors, Gates, Pofts, Rails 
Pales, Windows, Shutters, Garden-border-boards or 
any other Wooden Materials, in order to beautifie or 
prsferve ’em from any injury by Rain, &c. 
If you are to paint any Gates, Pofts, Palifades, £5V. 
and finifh ’em in Stoni-colour, fir ft carefully view the 
Work, and if you fee any Joints open in the Gates or 
any large Clefts in the Pofts or other work, then be 
fure firft of all to flop up all thofe Clefts, Cracks or 
Crannies' you (hall find (both fmooth and even) with 
Painters Puttee, which is made with Whiting and Lin fed 
Oyl well beaten together with a wooden Mallet, or bn a 
grinding Stone, till it be as ftiff as Dough for a Pye or 
Bread. Having with this Puttee ftopt up and perfe£lly 
fill’d all thofe Cracks or Defers, fo as to be even and 
equal to the furface or outlide of the Work ; then begin 
to prime your Work with Spanijh Brown well ground 
and mix’d very thin with Linjeed-Oyl ; with this d<> 
over your Work, giving it as much Oyl as ’twill drink: 
up : In about two Days ’twill be indifferent dry, and 
then if you would do your Work fubftantially, do it 
over again with the fame priming Colour. After thi* 
is thorow dry, take White Lead well ground and tem- 
a per’d 
