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mounted, but leave them attached to the skin as shown by the left leg of 
the accompanying figure.* 
. SQUIRREL PARTLY SKINNED. 
Detach the skin from the back, shoulders, and neck, and when you 
come to the ears cut them off close to the head. Turn the skin wrong 
side out over the head and proceed until you come to the eyes. Now 
work slowly with the knife, keeping close to the edge of the bony orbit, 
until you can see, through a thin membrane under your knife edge, the 
dark portion of the eye. You may now eut fearlessly through this 
membrane and expose the eyeball. It is a good plan with large maim- 
mals to hold ‘one finger of the left hand in the eye and cut against it to 
avoid cutting the lid. F 
Skin down to the end of the nose, cut through the cartilage close to 
the bone, and cut on down to where the upper lip joins the gum. Cut 
both lips away from the skull close to the bone all the way around the 
mouth, except directly in front of the incisors. 
The lips are thick and fleshy, and must be split open from the inside 
a 
*The ES accompanying this hanielans are melee from Sine naniied be the 
author to illustrate a forthcoming work on taxidermy. 
