On taking it out, you will find it shaded in stripes; but practice will be required before you will be able to produce it with certainty and regularity. Treat book edges in the same way.

Nonpareil Marble -The process for producing this pattern (Fig. 98) is precisely the same in every respect as the preceding one, up to the point of raking it with the peg-frame. You then take your comb, which is a much larger one, draw it through your color, from left to right, then immediately reverse it, and draw it back again, from right to left, and you will have the desired effect.

Antique Marble -To make the pattern shown at Fig. 99 throw on the first three colors (red, black, and yellow), rake it once up and down with your peg-frame, and then proceed to throw on your green; follow with the pink spots and, lastly, beat or knock on the small white spots. Some antique patterns are made with a blue or some other colored spot, in lieu of the pink; but the process is the same as the one we have just described.

Zebra Marble -This pattern (Fig. 100) is done with colors prepared the same as for ordinary Nonpareil. When you have put on the four colors, viz., red, black, yellow, and blue, you rake it the same as for Nonpareil, after which you throw on the

spot and lay on your paper, shading the same as for Spanish. Sometimes it is made without shading, and thus passes for another pattern.

Wave Marble -In this pattern (Fig. 100) the colors are drawn into a kind of undulating form, in which the points of the rows meet each other. The colors are prepared in the same manner as for the Nonpareil patterns. The red, yellow, blue, and green are thrown on, over which is beaten or knocked the small white, but not too abundantly. You now require a kind of double rake or frame, with teeth of stout wire, about 3in. or 4in. apart, and let the teeth of the hinder ones be so adjusted as to be exactly in the centre of the spaces left open by the first ones; the second., or hindermost, row of teeth must be l in. or 1 1/2in. behind the former. The two should be firmly fixed together, forming but one instrument; draw this through your color as you would a comb, from left to right, but with an undulating or seesaw motion, just sufficient to make the top of

the hindermost wave catch or touch the bottom of the foremost one, by which means it will produce an uniform appearance all over the sheet, something in the form of diamonds or squares. There are some other patterns of a similar kind, but made without the small white spots, and the same design is sometimes worked upon a French marble; but these require no additional explanation.

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