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    The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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    The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Title: The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX

             A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

      Author: Various

      Release Date: September 14, 2012 [EBook #40753]

      Language: English

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      THE

      NURSERY

      A Monthly Magazine

      For Youngest Readers.

      VOLUME XXIX.—No. 2.

      BOSTON:

      THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,

      No. 36 Bromfield Street.

      1881.

      Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by

      THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,

      In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      IN PROSE.

      IN VERSE.

      ALMOST READY FOR LAUNCHING.

      VOL. XXIX.—NO. 2.

      ALMOST READY FOR LAUNCHING.

      ERE we have a picture of a ship on the stocks, with a gang of men hard at work giving her the finishing touches. There are full twenty-six men in sight.

      What are they doing? Well, most of them, I think, are calkers. Do you know what that means? I will tell you.

      After the frame of a ship is set up, the timbers firmly bolted and braced, and the planking put on and fastened, inside and out, the next thing to be done is to make the seams water-tight.

      For this purpose, slivers of oakum, rolled up in the hand, are driven into the seams between the planks. When the seams are filled, they are covered with melted pitch or rosin to preserve the oakum from decay. This process is called calking.

      Most of the men seen in the picture are

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