The Boy (I say) takes the _Composing-stick_ by the _Handle_ in his left hand, clasping it about with his four Fingers, and puts the _Quadrat_ first into the _Composing-stick_, and lays the Ball of his Thumb upon it, and with the fore-Finger and Thumb of his right-Hand, assisted by his middle-finger to turn the _Letter_ to a proper position, with its _Nick_ upwards towards the bottom side of the _Composing-stick_; while it is coming to the _Stick_, he at the same time lifts up the Thumb of his left hand, and with it receives and holds the _Letter_ against the fore-side of the _Quadrat_, and after it, all the _Letters_ of the same sort, if the _Stick_ will hold them, If not he _Sets_ them in so many _Sticks_ as will hold them: Observing to _Set_ all the _Nicks_ of them upwards, as aforesaid. And as he _Set_ a _Quadrat_ at the beginning of the _Composing-stick_, so he fills not his _Stick_ so full, but that he may _Set_ another such _Quadrat_ at the end of it. ¶. 7. _Some Rules and Circumstances to be observed in_ Setting _up_ Letters. 1. If they _Drive_ a little out at _Head_ or _Foot_, so little as not to require new _Rubbing_ again, then he holds his Thumb harder against the _Head_ or _Foot_, so as to draw the _Driving_ end inward: For else when they come to _Scraping_, and _Dressing_ the _Hook_ of the _Dressing-Hook_ drawing Square, will endanger the middle or some other part of _Letters_ in the _Stick_ to _Spring_ out: And when they come into the _Dressing-block_, the _Knots_ of the _Blocks_ drawing also square subject them to the same inconvenience. And if they _Drive_ out at the _Head_, the _Feet_ will more or less stand off one another: So that when the _Tooth_ of the _Plow_ comes to _Dress_ the _Feet_, it will more or less job against every _Letter_, and be apt to make a bowing at the _Feet_, or at least make a _Bur_ on their sides at the _Feet_. 2. When _Short-Letters_ are begun to be _Set_ up in a _Stick_, the whole _Stick_ must be fill’d with _Short-Letters_: Because when they are _Dressing_, the _Short-Letters_ must be _Bearded_ on both sides the _Body_: And should _Short-Letters_ or _Ascending_ or _Descending_ or _Long_ stand together, the _Short_ cannot be _Bearded_ because the _Stems_ of the _Ascending_ or _Descending_ or _Long-Letters_ reach upon the _Body_ to the _Beard_: So that the _Short-Letters_ cannot be _Bearded_, unless the _Stems_ of the other _Letters_ should be scraped off. 3. When _Long-Letters_ are begun to be _Set_ up in the _Stick_, none but such must fill it, for the reason aforesaid. 4. If any _Letters Kern’d_ on one side be to be _Set_ up, and the _Stems_ of the same _Letters_ reach not to the opposite _Beard_ as s or f, in _Setting_ up these or such like _Letters_, every next _Letter_ is turned with its _Nick_ downwards, that the _Kern_ of each _Letter_ may lie over the _Beard_ of its next. But then they must be all _Set_ up again with a _Short-Letter_ between each, that they may be _Bearded_.