16 • TREATISE ON HOESE-SHOEING. 



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 Fig. 3 in this place, 

 because it gave me the opportunity of explaining 

 the reason for cutting off the heels as I have 

 directed; but at this 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. 



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THE NAIL-HOLES. 



You must next oj^en the nail-holes; but be 

 sure that they have been stamped so as to pass 

 straight through the shoe, and come out in the 

 flat part of the web and not partly in the flat 

 and partly in the seating. It is a very bad plan 

 to make them slant inwards, as most smiths do; 

 for in driving a nail they have first to pitch the 

 point inwards, then turn it outwards, driving it 



