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WINDOW GLASS.
Now let us watch them making the glass which
goes into windows. The melted glass having been brought, as we have
seen, from a liquid state to the condition in which it may be worked,
the gatherer dips the end of his hollow iron rod into the crucible,
and collects upon the end a pear-shaped lump of glass. Resting his
rod upon a stand, he turns it gently round, and allows the surface of
the lump to cool, to fit it for a second gathering. When he has enough
he rolls the glass until it is round and tapering to a point.
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