Now to return again where I left off. Holding the Handle of the _Kerning-stick_ in his left hand, He lays the side of the _Letter_ to be _Kern’d_ upwards with the _Face_ of the _Letter_ towards the end of the _Kerning-stick_: the side of the _Letter_ against the side _Sholder_ of the _Kerning-stick_, and the _Foot_ of the _Letter_ against the bottom _Sholder_ of the _Kerning-stick_, and laying the end of the Ball of his left-Hand Thumb hard upon the _Shanck_ of the _Letter_ to keep its _Side_ and _Foot_ steddy against the _Sholders_ of the _Kerning-stick_, he with the _Kerning-Knife_ in his right-Hand cuts off about one quarter of the _Mettal_ between the _Beard_ of the _Shanck_ and the _Face_ of the _Letter_. Then turning his _Knife_ so as the back of it may lean towards him, he scrapes towards him with the edge of the _Knife_ about half the length of that upper-side, _viz._ about so much as his Thumb does not cover: Then he turns the _Face_ of the _Letter_ against the lower _Sholder_ of the _Kerning-stick_, and scraping fromwards him with a stroak or two of his _Knife_ smoothens that end of the _Letter_ also. If the other side of the _Letter_ be not to be _Kern’d_ it was before _Rub’d_ on the _Stone_, as was shewed in the last ¶: But if it be to be _Kern’d_, then he makes a little hole in his _Kerning-stick_, close to the lower _Sholder_ of it and full deep enough to receive all that part of the _Face_ of the _Letter_ that hangs over the _Shanck_, that the _Shanck_ of the _Letter_ may lie flat and solid on the bottom of the _Kerning-stick_, and that so the _Shanck_ of the _Letter_ bow not when the weight of the hand presses the edge of the _Kerning-Knife_ hard upon it. Into this hole he puts (as before said) so much of the _Face_ of the _Letter_ as hangs over the side of the _Shanck_, and so scrapes the lower end of the _Letter_ and _Kerns_ the upper end, as he did the former side of the _Letter_. ¶. 6. _Of_ Setting up, _or_ Composing Letters. I described in §. 5. ¶. 2. the _Lining-stick_, But now we are come to _Setting up_, or _Composing_ of _Letters_. The _Founder_ must provide many _Composing-Sticks_; five or six dozen at the least. These _Composing-sticks_ are indeed but long _Lining-sticks_, about seven or eight and twenty Inches long _Handle_ and all: Whereof the _Handle_ is about three Inches and an half long: But as the _Lining-stick_ I described was made of _Brass_: So these _Composing-sticks_ are made of _Beech-Wood_. When the Boy _Sets_ up _Letters_ (for it is commonly Boys-Work) The _Caster Casts_ about an hundred _Quadrats_ of the same _Body_ about half an Inch broad at least, let the _Body_ be what it will, and of the length of the whole _Carriage_, only by placing a flat _Brass_ or _Iron Plate_ upon the _Stool_ of the _Mold_ close against the _Carriage_ and _Body_, to stop the _Mettal_ from running farther.