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Stories of Industry
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at first it was upright, rather like a bottle. Then, heating it once
more, the man proceeds to trim it around the top with a pair of scissors.
Yet so quickly does the "metal" cool, that the pieces, so soft when cut
off, fall on the ground with the "clink" of hardened glass, and the jug
has to be warmed again before the trimming can be completed and the lip
formed.
A FURNACE
Once more is the now really shapable article
held in the fervent glow of the furnace. At this stage of the
proceedings a lad comes forward with a rod which is not hollow, and
pushing it into another opening of the crucible, brings it out with
a small lump of glass on the end. With this he hurries to the first
workman, and lets it drop itself upon a certain spot near the bottom
of the hot jug, which is held in position for
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