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face for the crust to bear upon, F tlie heels bevelled 

 off away from the frog. 



In Fig. 2, A is the toe, turned up out of the 

 line of wearj B 1 the outer and B 2 the inner 

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

 D the ground-surface of the web, as wdde at the 

 heels as it is at the toe, E tlie fullering, carried 

 all round the shoe. 



NAILS. 



I must say a few words about the nails before we 

 come to nailing on the shoe; because the nails in 

 common use are as badly formed as they well 

 can be. Their short wedge-shaped heads, wide at the 

 top and narrow at the bottom, with shanks spring- 

 ing suddenly from the head without any shoulder 

 and ending in a long, narrow point, are most 

 unsafe to trust a shoe to. The head of such a 

 nail can never perfectly fill the hole in the shoe, 

 for the wide top gets tied either in the fullering, 

 or the upper part of the hole, before the lower 



