CUrnNG OFF THE HEELS. 



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Figure 



shoe into its proper place upon the foot. Figure 2 is a shoe 

 turned in the rough ; and the dotted lines show the direction in 

 which the heels should be cut off. The side next the frog 

 should be cut off from C 

 to B, and the outer cor- 

 ner from A to B, and then 

 the shoe will look like 

 figure 3, which, with a 

 little hammering over the 

 beak of the anvil, will 

 soon come like figure 4 ; 

 you will see that the 

 points, marked A in fig- 

 ure 3, have disappeared 

 in figure 4, and that the 

 parts between A and B 

 on each side have become 

 a portion of the outer rim 

 of the shoe, whereby the outer rim is lengthened, and the 

 inner rim shortened ; and there are no corners left to inter- 

 fere with your following 

 the sweep of the heels, '^^"* 



and you are enabled to 

 keep the web as wide at 

 the heels as it is at the toe. 

 I have introduced figure 4 

 in this place, because it 

 gave me the opportunity 

 of explaining the reas«:>n 

 for cutting off the heels as 

 I have directed ; but at 

 tin's stage of the business 

 it is a good plan always to 

 leave the quarters and 

 heels rather straight, and 

 wide apart, until you have fitted the toe ; because it is less 

 trouble to bring them in than it is to open them out after the 

 front has been fitted. 



The Nail-Holes. — You must next open the nail-holes ; but 



