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to prevent ; the seating thei'efore in such a case should not 

 be increased. 



Having selected a shoe, suited to the foot, the first thing 

 to be done to it, will be to cut tlie rough, unfinished heels to 

 the requii'ed length ; and upon the direction, in whicli this 

 is done, will mainly depend the accuracy, with which they 

 can ultimately be made to follow the sweep of the hoof 

 The common practice is to cut them off" square, whereby 

 two corners are left at the termination of each limb of the 

 shoe, preventing their ever being accommodated to the easy 



curve, by which the crust merges into 

 the bars at these parts, as shewn at a. h. 

 Fig. 1 : this can only be ^^roperly and 

 eftectually done, by lengthening the 

 outer edge of the shoe by cutting off 

 the heels in the direction of the dotted 

 lines in Fig. 2, the outer corner from a. to a. ; and the 

 inner from h. h. Each heel 

 will then present the ap- 

 pearance, shown in Fig. 3 ; 

 and this is the .shape, that 

 every heel should have 

 imparted to it, when it is 

 cut off;' it should then be placed over the beak of 

 the anvil, and hammered, until the point at a. disappears alto- 

 o-ether, and the space between it and h. becomes a continuous 

 portion of the rim, which is, what I mean by lengthening 

 the outer edge of the shoe. This is more clearly shewn in 

 Fig. 4. where a. b. mark the outer, and c. d. the inner rim. 



h 



%2 



first 



h 



