Excerpt from The Puering, Bating Drenching of SkinsWhen learning the trade as an apprentice every fault in the leather was attributed to this part of the work, and the troubles and miseries of the puer shop first caused me to take up the study of puering. I was determined to know the causes underlying the process. Puering is not only a filthy and disgusting operation, -but is prejudicial to health, and in the nature of it is attended by more worry and trouble than all the rest of the processes in leather making put together.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.