Bad translation that's leading w/ your chin.

DD

Ken Follett wrote:

> On the subject of lead, paint, salad or otherwise.
>
> Kathy reading Trollope this last weekend mentioned a reference to men leading
> their beards. We are curious if venal older men of the 19th c. were in the
> habit of using a lead comb in order to darken the color of a whitened beard?
>
> ][<en