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Rh Till it looked all squares and oblongs, Like a complicated figure In the second book of Euclid. This he perched upon a tripod, And the family in order Sat before him for their pictures. Mystic, awful was the process. First, a piece of glass he coated With Collodion, and plunged it In a bath of Lunar Caustic Carefully dissolved in water: There he left it certain minutes. Secondly, my Hiawatha Made with cunning hand a mixture Of the acid Pyro-gallic, And of Glacial Acetic, And of Alcohol and water: This developed all the picture. Finally, he fixed each picture