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316 the general laws of nature, but on following them up to their causes it will be found otherwise.

Supposing the foregoing precautions to have been attended to, there can be no better mode adopted for priming or laying on the first coat on stucco than by linseed or nut oil boiled with driers, with a proper brush, taking care in all cases not to lay on too much so as to render the surface rough and irregular, and not more than the stucco will absorb. It should then be covered with three or four coats of ceruse or white lead, prepared as described for painting on wainscoting, letting each coat have sufficient time to dry hard.

If time will permit, two or three days between each coat will not be too long. If the stucco is intended to be finished of any given tint, as gray, light green or apricot, it will then be proper, about the third coat of painting, to prepare the ground for such tint by a slight advance towards it.