In the course of his progress he will find some sheets laid the wrong way, these he puts right in some cases the boys will have taken two sheets of the same signature up, he takes one of these out in other cases, there may be duplicate signatures, and the right one in order wanting he calls out to the gathering boys to give him the right sheet, and draws out the duplicate as before, and sometimes a signature is wanting, which he also calls for. The person who has to collate, (generally the Warehouseman, as he is answerable for the correctness of the delivery of books) takes a heap of a gathering and places the first or signature page uppermost, towards his right hand, and with the point of a sharp bodkin, or a penknife, picks up the corner of each sheet, in order to see that each signature is right, passing his thumb under them as they rise, to keep what he examines separate from the heap, and thus proceeds till he has examined one gathering he then slips this gathering a little back on the heap, and proceeds with another, till he has gone through eight or ten, which he turns over to his left hand upon the table, where they are ready to fold and he thus proceeds till he has collated a sufficient number for his delivery, or the whole number of the work, as the case may require. To examine the signatures in each gathering, to see that they are right and perfect.
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