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The next object of attention is the 

 completion of the nail holes, which 

 are usually left imperfect in a shoe, 

 "turned in the rough:" but before 

 doing this, it will -be well to ascer- 

 tain, that they fall in convenient 

 places, where the horn is sound ; and if they should fail 

 to do so, others must be added. There is no fear of 

 an extra hole or two materially weakening the shoe, even 

 though they should chance to come near to each other ; 

 and the sacrifice of uniformity must not be considered in 

 so important a matter, as keeping on a shoe. 



We must now turn our attention to the fore part of the 

 shoe, where a small, but stout clip is to be formed out of 

 the substance of the iron exactly in the centre of the 

 toe ; and then the whole width of the web turned up out 

 of the line of wear. 



The readiest mode of doing: this I have endeavoured to 

 represent by Fig. 5, where it will be seen, that the two 



