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membrane wiiieli adheres to the inside of the eyelids and turn the ear 

 wrong side out at the base in order to cut away the flesh around it. 



Fig 2. — Skinuiug the head. 



If the ears have hair upon them they must be skinned up from the 

 inside and turned wrong side out quite to the tip, in order to separate 

 the outside skin, which holds the hair, from the cartilage which supports 

 the ear. 



To prepare the skull, cut the larger masses of flesh off the cranium, 

 cut out the eyes and tongue very carefully, and with a bent wire, or a 

 spoon-handle bent uj) at the end, draw out the brain through the occip- 

 ital opening at the back of the skull. 



By this time the skin will most surely have become bloody in several 

 places, and before applying any preservative it must be washed 'per- 

 fecthj clean. Blood left upon the hair imparts to it a lasting stain, and 

 usually causes the hair to come off in mounting. After washing a skin, 

 if it is to be made up .at once, dry the hair with corn meal. 



SKINNING LARGE MAMMALS. 



The principal difference between the manner of skinning a small ter- 

 restrial quadruped and a large one, like a bear, deer, or buffalo, is that 

 the skin of each \c.^ is slit open from the bottom of the foot up the back 



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of the leg nearly the first joint and from th ence up the inside of the 

 leg, following the lines of the accompanying ligure, until it meets the 



