Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . give me fifteen dollars for it if it was ntcracked. After looking it over I asked if he hadany more furniture and we went upstairs to see a four-posted bed and somebureaus, all of which he took great pridein because he had finished them. Is that bed mahogany? I asked. Oh, my, no! he answered. Itssolid cherry with mahogany finish on it. You put it on hot, do nt you? Boiling hot. First scrape it, thenthe mahogany finish, then sand paper,then two coats of shellac, then the sandpaper again, then varnish. I began to wonder if my mahoganychest o
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . give me fifteen dollars for it if it was ntcracked. After looking it over I asked if he hadany more furniture and we went upstairs to see a four-posted bed and somebureaus, all of which he took great pridein because he had finished them. Is that bed mahogany? I asked. Oh, my, no! he answered. Itssolid cherry with mahogany finish on it. You put it on hot, do nt you? Boiling hot. First scrape it, thenthe mahogany finish, then sand paper,then two coats of shellac, then the sandpaper again, then varnish. I began to wonder if my mahoganychest of drawers I bought in Bostonwas cherry. In fact, I decided, thenand there, to learn to identify the realarticle. -122-.
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