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foot and tlie shoe, and, if you should perceive any, 

 alter the shoe at once; for the crust must bear 

 upon the shoe all round before you can say that 

 the shoe fits the foot as it ourfit to do. 



FILING UP THE SHOE. 



Much time is often wasted in polishing the shoe 

 with the file before it is nailed on; but all that 

 is really needed is to get rid of the burs about 

 the nail-holes, remove the sharp edges of the shoe, 

 and round off the heels; taking care to apply the 

 file hard to that part of both heels which comes 

 next to the frog, so as to slant it from the ground 

 upward and away from the frog; but you must 

 not narrow the ground-suYfixce of the web at the 

 heels in doing so. Plate 4 represents both surfaces 

 of a near fore-shoe; Fig. 1 shows the foot-surface, 

 and Fig. 2 the ground-surflice. 



In Fig. 1, A is the clip at the toe, B 1 the outer 

 quarter, B 2 the inner quarter, C 1 the outer heel, 

 C 2 the inner heel, D the seating, E the flat sur- 



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