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4 Jun 2011 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_wagstaffAh now there, me old tin plates!
I've been hearin that when some of yeh've tried usin sheep's or cow's bladders, there was a bit o drippin an leakin. An that can happen, it can. Depends on wot yeh've put in em an ow careful yeh are or yeh ain't.
But Honest Wil's got a suggestion. A solution, even--am I right?
If'n yeh live near a taxidermist, buy some arsenical soap off him. Or make it yerself, yeah? Be resourceful, mates. Use them loaves o yers.
Easy as eggs, is arsenical soap. What yeh need is all just down the shops--or a pedlar'll provide, innit.
Here's ow yeh do it.
An there's an added benefit of arsenical soap: if'n yeh rub it at yer doorposts an window sills an on yer counters an all, yeh'll run off any creepy crawlies wot bovver yeh. It's the camphor as does it: they don't like that, they don't.
Oh. An if yer stoppin down the taxidermist's, mind yeh don't turn yer back on anyfin wiv dirty, great claws nor too many teef in ther jaws! They may be stuffed, but they ain't stiff. If yeh know wot I mean.
I've been hearin that when some of yeh've tried usin sheep's or cow's bladders, there was a bit o drippin an leakin. An that can happen, it can. Depends on wot yeh've put in em an ow careful yeh are or yeh ain't.
But Honest Wil's got a suggestion. A solution, even--am I right?
If'n yeh live near a taxidermist, buy some arsenical soap off him. Or make it yerself, yeah? Be resourceful, mates. Use them loaves o yers.
Easy as eggs, is arsenical soap. What yeh need is all just down the shops--or a pedlar'll provide, innit.
Here's ow yeh do it.
- In a good sized cauldron or pot, yeh mix 2 pounds arsenical potash wiv 2 pounds of alum. (No point doin it if yer not goin to make enough, yeah?)
Add in 2 pounds white soap flakes and mix it all up.
Yeh see ow it goes--2 pounds an 2 pounds an 2 pounds, but here's the twist: now yeh add 4 pints spirit of camphor (or, yeh know, 4 pints spirits wiv a half-pound powdered camphor all dissolved in).
An if yeh wanta make it smell nice, yeh could add in some essence o thyme or rosemary--much as yeh like.
An there's an added benefit of arsenical soap: if'n yeh rub it at yer doorposts an window sills an on yer counters an all, yeh'll run off any creepy crawlies wot bovver yeh. It's the camphor as does it: they don't like that, they don't.
Oh. An if yer stoppin down the taxidermist's, mind yeh don't turn yer back on anyfin wiv dirty, great claws nor too many teef in ther jaws! They may be stuffed, but they ain't stiff. If yeh know wot I mean.
