Elaborate means are taken to prevent this, even compelling the absolute stripping of the workman, and a complete change of clothes on going in and coming out of the mine.

THE SECOND VOICE To-morrow we will fight borer and blight, Forgive Thy birds to-night their trespasses, The stripping of a currant-bush or two!

"You'd better leave out the stripping, boys!" They began dragging the boys and the old man toward the tar-kettle, and McGill, with his hat drawn down over his eyes, went to the slimy mass and dipped into it a wooden paddle with which they had been stirring it.

So Pere came and drew buckets and buckets of water, and you never saw such a stripping and such a slopping, as they washed and shavedand with such dispatch.