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Show The Story of Shellac. The useful shellac Is the product of an 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 was born. In this manner It absorbs ab-sorbs a quantity of llie sup 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 cleaned until the shellac of commerce Is the result. |