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next process is to drill the leg bones {I and /, and N and P) witli 

 an American twist-drill and brace, in order to push up a wire 

 rod of sufficient stoutness to carry the weight of the body*; 

 leave plenty of length of wire above and below. Next drill the 

 bottom board to receive the wires under the feet, where shown 

 at L and Q; when firmly bolted underneath bend the rod with 

 attached bones into the positions shown on Plate III. Bend 

 the upper portion of the rods now at right angles, in order to 

 go through the scapulars and pelvis. Next take the cage (Pig. 

 32) representing the body, with pelvic girdle and scapular arch 

 attached, and ready drilled, lift between the limbs, pushing the 

 top wires — now at right angles — through the holes drilled to 

 receive them, bending these down on each side. We have now a 

 rough but fairly correct image of the skeleton without a head. 

 Taking now the natural skull {A B), we open the jaws as 

 much as desired, and filling in the cavities with paper and 

 tow, perfect the shape by modelling with clay to replace the 

 flesh. Pixing this on the wire, 0, we make up the neck with 

 tow and clay, binding the former on very tightly, and adding 

 clay to give character, especially where it approaches the chest. 

 The cage must now be tightly packed with old newspapers, 

 brown paper, or clean straw, hut with neither hay nor "Jlochs." f 

 Before this is done, however, it will be as well to interlace the 

 wires with tow, laid on as a thin sheet, and glued ; be sure of the 

 shape now — if ever; let the cage be widest in the middle, tapering 

 off above and below and toward each end, being careful to make 

 it a little smaller, if anything, than the actual body ; make up 

 with straw and tow at E, keeping this part narrow underneath ; 

 bind the tail, G, thinly with tow, gradually thickening it as it 

 approaches F; cover all these parts with clay where required. 

 The fore and hind limbs, especially the latter, require very careful 

 modelling. To do this properly measurements and tracings of 

 the shapes should have been taken. Bind tow around all, to 

 roughly represent the form, and then artistically adjust clay to 

 represent the muscles and flesh. The appearance presented now 



* In cases where drilling is impracticable, it will be sufficient to firmly lash the bones to 

 the rod in the position which they shoiild occupy during the subsequent modelling. 



t "Flocks" and sacking are the harbouring places of Tinea Tapetzella, L., a destructive 

 little moth, the ravages of whose larvae once cost me all the *' soft " parts of a sofa, besides 

 iilling the house before discovery with the perfect insect— eager to perpetuate its race at my 



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