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Tools for correcting
houses has the knee firmly fastened to the bottom plate, so that the measure can never be unsettled. Another form of stick has two adjustable knees,
one lapping over the other, and so arranged that the matter of two measures can be set in the same stick one for text and one for side-notes. 1
Newspaper
The
stick
stick of unalterable measure.
needs care.
or allowed to rust, or tight spacing,
The bodkin
If if
dropped upon the
the knee
it is liable
is
to give
strained
bad
by
floor,
over-
justification.
is
a straight awl, firmly fixed in Bodkin. a handle, which used for withdrawing a faulty type from the form. Bodkins are also made hooked or bent at is
the point.
The spring bodkin, that shuts up is a more useful tool.
be-
tween tweezers, 1
French composing-sticks are
shallow, holding about five lines of pica. American and British sticks hold ten or twelve lines of pica. It is claimed that the
shallow stick does not fatigue the compositor by its weight, and enables the left hand to follow the right in every movement of picking up type.