CUTTING OFF THE HEELS. 15 



off square; if jou do, you will find it impossible 

 to fit the shoe properly to the heels, and at the 

 same time keep the web as wide at the heels as 

 it is at the toe; fdr one of the corners of the 

 shoe will be sticking into the frog, while the 

 other stands out beyond the crust; but if you cut 

 them off as shown in Plate II., Fig. 1, you will 

 have no difficulty in bringing ev^y part of the 

 shoe into its proper place upon the foot. Fig. 1 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 corner from A to B, and 

 then the shoe will look like Fig. 2, which with 

 a little hammering over the beak of the anvil will 

 soon come like Fig. 3: you will see that the 

 points, marked A in Fig. 2, have disappeared in 

 Fig. 3, 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 length- 

 ened, and the inner rim shortened; and there 

 are no corners left to interfere with your following 



