The blower drew out the soft metal from the end
of the bubble into a slender stem. The other blower now brought his
smaller bubble, stuck the bottom of it to the end of the stem,
and then by a touch of cold steel,
cracked it off from his pipe. The chief blower now had at the end of
his pipe two bubbles, with a stem between them, and with a hole in the
end of the outer and smaller bubble. This, softened at the furnace door,
was not only opened by the tools, but turned completely inside out,
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