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sm Wool from a dead sheep, pluck. A skin of this sort (marbhchann) is often washed first in the strong lye in which clothes have been steeped for the wash. It is washed in each lather as the clothes are taken out and after rinsing hung on a pailing to drip and nearly dry when a skin is sufficiently dry to be plucked, it is placed on the back of a chair near the fire — the warmth makes the plucking easier — with a clean creel underneath into which the tufts of wool fall as they are plucked. The cutch, or coarse wool, remains on the skin, if the fingers are deft enough. The wool is then either teazed for carding or dyed should it be needed for mixtures. This kind of wool is not generally considered so excellent as that shorn from the sheep but serves admirably for tweeds or for dyeing and mixing with the better quality of wool in common use — KWG. in Mòd prize paper.

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