MAKING SKINS. 51 



back, and push the single bones left on the fore- 

 arm into the skin, then fasten them by taking a 

 stitch through the skin near the base of the wing ; 

 then, passing the thread around the bone, tie it 

 firmly. Now with the same thread, uncut, sew the 

 other bone in a similar manner, leaving the two 

 connected by a piece of thread which is about as 

 long as the natural width of the body of the bird, 

 thus the wings are kept the same distance apart as 



Fig. 9. 



they were formerly. Now take a piece of cotton 

 and form it into a rough body as near as possible 

 in size to the one removed, but having a tapering 

 neck of about the length of nature. Now grasp 

 this firmly in the tweezers, and place it, neck fore- 

 most, in the skin, taking care that the point of 

 the tweezers enters the brain cavity of the skull, 

 so that the cotton may fill it, and projecting down- 

 ward, form the throat ; now allow the tweezers 

 to open, and slip them out. Open the eyelids, 

 arranging them neatly over the rounded cotton 



