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wide at the broadest part, and is made of two strips about 1 inch thick 

 and 5 wide, joined at the toe by a long lap-splice, held together by 

 four short horizontal or slightly oblique stit&amp;lt;;hes of thong. Each strip 

 is elliptical in section, with the long axis vertical, and keeled on the 

 inner face, except between the bars. Kach is 

 tapered off considerably from the toe bar to the 

 toe, and slightly tapered toward the heel. The 

 two points are fastened together by a short hori 

 zontal stitch of whalebone. The tip is produced 

 into a slight &quot; tail,&quot; 1 and the inner side of each 

 shoe is slightly straighter than the outer that 

 is to say, they are &quot;right* and lefts. 



The bars are elliptical in section, flattened, 

 and have their ends mortised into the rim. They 

 are about a foot apart, and of oak. the toe bar 

 9-2 inches long and the heel bar 8v&amp;gt;. Both 

 are of the same breadth and thickness, 1 by 

 inch. There is also an extra bar for strength 

 ening the back part of the shoe 10 inches from 

 the point. It is also of oak, 4-8 inches long, 0-5 

 wide, and 0-3 thick. The toe and heel nettings 

 are pnt on first. Small equidistant vertical 

 holes run round the inside of each space. Those 

 in the rim are drilled through the keel already 

 mentioned, and joined by a shallow groove 

 above and below; those in the bars are about 

 inch from the edge and joined by a groove on 

 the under side of the toe bar only. Into these 

 holes is laced a piece of babiche, which is knot 

 ted once into each hole, making a series of 

 beckets about f inch wide round the inside of 

 the space. There are no lacing holes in the 

 parts spliced at the toe, but the lacing passes 

 through a bight of each stitch. At the toe bar 

 the lacing is carried straight across from rim to 

 rim about three times, the last part being wound 

 rouud the others. 



On the left shoe the end is brought back on 

 the left-hand side, passed through the first hole 

 in the bar from above, carried along in the 

 groove on the underside to the next hole, up 

 through this and round the lacing, and back 



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through the same hole, the two parts being 



twisted together between the bar and lacing. This is continued, stop 

 ping &quot; the lacing in festoons to the bar. to the last hole on the right, 



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