Then taking again the _Dressing-Stick_ in his left hand at or near the handle of it, he takes the _Dressing-Hook_ at the _Knot_, between the fore-Finger and Thumb of his right-Hand, and laying the _Hook_ over the edge of the _Quadrat_ at the farther end of the _Dressing-stick_, near the _bottom-Ledge_ of it, he slips his right-hand to the _Handle_ of the _Dressing-stick_, and his left hand towards the middle of the _Dressing-stick_, so as the end of the Ball of his Thumb may draw by the farther end of the _Knot_ on the _Dressing-Hook_ the whole _Dressing-Hook_, and the _Hook_ at the end of it the whole _Stick_ of _Letter_ close together towards him; While at the same time he with his Fingers clutched about the _Stick_ and _Letter_, and the Thumb-_ball_ of his hand presses the under flat of the _Hooking-stick_ close against the _Letter_ and _Dressing-stick_, that the _Letter_ in the _Stick_ may lie fast and manageable. Then he takes the _Handle_ of the _Dressing-Knife_ in his right-Hand, and inclining the back of it towards his _Body_, that its _Basil_-edge may _Cut_ or _Scrap_ the smoother, He _Scrapes_ twice or thrice upon so much of the whole _Line_ of _Letters_ as lies between the outer-side of the _Dressing-Hook_ and the _Face_ of the _Letter_. But if twice or thrice _Scraping_, have not taken all the _Bur_ or irregularities off so much of the _Letter_ as he _Scraped_ upon, he _Scrapes_ yet longer and oftner till the whole number of _Letters_ in the _Dressing-stick_ from end to end seems but one intire piece of _Mettal_. Thus is that side of the fore-part (_viz._ that part towards the _Face_) of the _Shanck_ of the _Body_ finisht. To _Scrape_ the other end of that side of the _Letter_, _viz._ that towards the _Feet_; He turns the _Handle_ of the _Stick_ from him, and removing the _Dressing-Hook_ towards the _Face_ of the _Letter_ which is already _Scraped_, he places his Thumb against the _Knot_ of the _Dressing-Hook_, and presses it hard from him, that the _Hook_ of the _Dressing-Hook_ being now towards him, may force the whole _Stick_ of _Letter_ forwards against the _Side-Ledge_ of the _Dressing-stick_; that so the whole _Line_ in the _Stick_ may lie again the faster and more manageable: Then he _Scrapes_ with the _Dressing-Knife_ as before, till the end of the _Shanck_ of the _Letter_ towards the _Feet_ be also _Drest_.