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The ground gave under his feet, and at every step a squashy sound was heard, as if the handle were being drawn out of a churn. Then came a black morass, at the edge of which stood white-haired cotton-grass, and on which swam a layer of dissolved iron, shining like verdigris. He carefully avoided it, though he got into the morass after all, but finally struggled back to dry land.
This may be obtained by various mixtures: black and a little blue, mixed with yellow; yellow-pink, with a little verdigris and lamp-black; or ochre and a small quantity of white, will also produce a kind of olive colour. For distemper, indigo and yellow-pink, mixed with white lead or Spanish white, must be used. If veined, it should be done with umber.
The smooth-stemmed beeches had taken on every tint from fiery brown, through orange and amber, to verdigris green touching latest July shoots. The round-headed oaks, practising even in carnival time a measure of restraint, had arrayed themselves in a hundred rich, finely-gradated tones of russet and umber.
Lake and flake white, shaded with carmine; bistre and vermilion shaded with black. Changeable Silk. Red lead and masticot water, shaded with sap-green and verdigris. Another. Lake and yellow, shaded with lake and Prussian blue. Cloud Colour. Light masticot, or lake and white, shaded with blue verditer. Another. Constant white and Indian ink, and a little vermilion. Another.
"Pretty green" he must be who will eat bought pickles! Preserved fruits often have verdigris in them, too. An awful list! Imagine a meal of such bewitched food, where the actual articles are named. "Take some of the alum bread." "Have a cup of pea-soup and chicory-coffee?" "I'll trouble you for the oil-of-vitriol, if you please."
Boil a pound of chipped logwood in water enough to cover the cotton; take out half a gallon, and dissolve in it an ounce of verdigris, and one of alum; boil the yarn in the logwood water an hour, stirring it, and keeping it loose; then take it out, and mix in the verdigris; put back the yarn, and let it boil four hours, stir all the time, and take it out every hour to give it air, dry it in the sun, and the next day boil it in soap-suds.
Then they crossed the quadrangle to inspect the colts and fillies, where glories still lay ahead. "Verdigris by Copper King out of Valeria again. And if he doesn't make a name I'll never judge another horse, sir. Strain of the old Touchstone blood there. Rather ugly? Yes, they're often a bit ugly that lot, but devilish good uns to go. You ask Miss Cathcart about them.
There, too, the Clown, race-horse of merry name and mournful memory, had paid the penalty of wholly involuntary transgression just thirty years ago. That last was a rather horrible incident, of which Richard never cared to think. Chifney had told him about it once, in connection with the parentage of Verdigris had told him just by chance. To think of it, even now, made a lump rise in his throat.
One practical lesson, of course, we may draw is this: We must have a care in dissolving bluestone or copper sulphate, not to attempt it in iron pans, and not to store or put verdigris into iron vessels, or the iron will be acted upon, and to some extent the copper salt will become contaminated with iron.
Verdigris is sometimes employed to dye them green. We are not aware that the vegetable tallow has as yet been imported into Britain to any extent. Some local travellers of about twenty-five years' practice, may still remember the keeper of a toll-bar on one of the western approaches to Glasgow, known in his neighbourhood as English John.
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