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Index of tips
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The editor of an agricultural periodical witnessed an experiment of driving
nails into hard seasoned timber, fairly dried. He says that the first two
nails, after passing through a pine board, entered about one inch, and then
doubled down under the hammer; but on dipping the points of the other six or
eight nails into lard, every one was driven home without the least
difficulty. Carpenters who are engaged in repairing old buildings sometimes
carry a small lump of lard or tallow for this purpose on one of their boots
or shoes. The Farm and Household Cyclopędia - circa 1888
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