Practical Taxidermy, And Home Decoration; Together With General Information for Sportsmen
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156 PEACTICAL TAXIDERMY. case should be papered and tinted, the rock-work nailed in, and the side-glasses fastened by pasting strips of pa- per over their edges and on the wood- work. If colored paper is not used, paint it with asphalt varnish. Grasses and mosses are then glued behind and on the upper edge of the rocks, and in the crevices, and the birds are then arranged. The front glass is now fastened in, and the case is ready for the inner molding, which can be fastened with brads or wire n...ails, carefully driven in holes made with a brad-awl. HINTS ON MAKING KOCK-WOKK. 157 CHAPTER XXVIII, HINTS ON MAKING ROCK-WOKK. With taste and ingenuity, many varieties of rock-work can be made to closely resemble natural specimens. Dif- ferent materials are necessary for each kind of rock, and, in using them, much depends on the outlines and general form. The rocks should be sharp, irregular, and built up about one-third the hight of a case. A shelving one in the fore-ground, backed by an irregular rocky wall, has a natural and pleasing efEect where combination of color has been closely studied.
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