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To cleanse gloves without welling

Lay the gloves upon a clean board, make a mixture of dried fulling earth and powdered allum, and pass them over on each side with a common stiff brush; then sweep it off, and sprinkle them well with dry bran and whiting, and dust them well; this, if they be not exceedingly greasy, will render them quite clean; but if they are much soiled take out the grease with crumbs of toasted bread, and powder of burnt bone; then pass them over with a woollen cloth dipped in fulling earth or alum powder; and in this manner they can be cleaned without wetting, which frequently shrinks and spoils them.