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Show The Story of Shellac. The useful shellac Is the product of n insect. As soon as it emerges into the world, the Insect looks around for a suitable place to commence operations opera-tions which consists of thrusting its beak into the trunk of a tree on which It as born. Iu this manner It ab-tm-hs a quantity of the sap which Is exuded from the pores of its body until un-til It Is completely covered. The Insects In-sects are scraped from the surface of ' the tree trunk and then treated and denned until the shellac of commerce Is the result. i |