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Page 170 - dope" : Pine tar, 3 oz. Citronella, I oz. Olive (or castor) oil, 2 Creosote, I oz. oz. Camphor (pulverized), I Oil pennyroyal, I oz. oz. Large tube carbolated vaseline. Heat the tar and oil and add the other ingredients; simmer over slow fire until well mixed. The tar may be omitted if disliked, or for ladies
Page 176 - Mr. Raymond L. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles in the New York Zoological Park, was sought and we thus obtained the fourth pose, which is shown in the photographs published herewith.
Page 236 - ... Pass the rope through the eye or around the object from left to right, holding the long rope in the left hand. Take a half hitch around the long rope, starting it by passing the end across over the long rope (see Fig.
Page 184 - ... on its inner surface a deep, narrow, longitudinal groove. The fresh leaves have an extremely nauseating taste, and when bruised emit a characteristic mouse-like odor. Poison hemlock is native to Europe and Asia, but has become naturalized in the United States, and is rather common on waysides and in waste places in New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio, and not rare in the New England States and in Michigan. It is infrequent in Wisconsin, Illinois, Louisiana, and California,...