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...fullers and dyers find black cloths, of equal thickness with white ones, and hung out equally wet, dryin the sun much sooner than the white, being more readily...sooner warms in a black mug set before the fire, than a white one, or in a bright silver tankard. Take a number of little square pieces of cloth from a tailor's...