FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

PART I COWBOY YARNS The centipede runs across my head, The

PART II THE COWBOY OFF GUARD

CHAPTER II. CONSTITUTION OF OILS AND FATS, AND THEIR SAPONIFICATION.

CHAPTER III. RAW MATERIALS USED IN SOAP-MAKING.

CHAPTER IV. BLEACHING AND TREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS INTENDED FOR SOAP-MAKING.

CHAPTER V. SOAP-MAKING.

CHAPTER VI. TREATMENT OF SETTLED SOAP.

CHAPTER VII. TOILET, TEXTILE AND MISCELLANEOUS SOAPS.

CHAPTER VIII. SOAP PERFUMES.

CHAPTER IX. GLYCERINE MANUFACTURE AND PURIFICATION.

CHAPTER X. ANALYSIS OF RAW MATERIALS, SOAP, AND GLYCERINE.

CHAPTER XI. STATISTICS OF THE SOAP INDUSTRY.

APPENDIX A. COMPARISON OF DEGREES, TWADDELL AND BAUME, WITH

APPENDIX B. COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT THERMOMETRIC SCALES. Cent.

APPENDIX C.

APPENDIX D. TABLE OF STRENGTH OF CAUSTIC POTASH SOLUTIONS AT 60

"THAT THESE DEAR FRIENDS I LEAVE BEHIND
MAY KEEP KIND HEARTS' REMEMBRANCE OF THE LOVE WE HAD."
Solon.

In affectionate gratitude to a group of men, my intimate friends during College days (brought under one roof by a "Fraternity"), whom I still love not less but more,

Will Prather, Hammett Hardy, Penn Hargrove and Harry Steger, of precious and joyous memory;

Norman Crozier, not yet quite emerged from Presbyterianism;

Eugene Barker, cynical, solid, unafraid;

"Cap'en" Duval, a gentleman of Virginia, sah;

Ed Miller, red-headed and royal-hearted;

Bates MacFarland, calm and competent without camouflage;

Jimmie Haven, who has put 'em over every good day since;

Charley Johnson, "the Swede" — the fattest, richest and dearest of the bunch;

Edgar Witt, whose loyal devotion and pertinacious energy built the "Frat" house;

Roy Bedichek, too big for any job he has yet tackled;

"Curley" Duncan, who possesses all the virtues of the old time cattleman and none of the vices of the new;

Rom Rhome, the quiet and canny counter of coin;

Gavin Hunt, student and lover of all things beautiful;

Dick Kimball, the soldier; every inch of him a handsome man;

Alex and Bruce and Dave and George and "Freshman" Mathis and Clarence, the six Freshmen we "took in"; while Ike MacFarland, Alfred Pierce Ward, and Guy and Charlie Witt were still in the process of assimilation,—

To this group of God's good fellows, I dedicate this little book.

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