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قراءة كتاب How to Make a Shoe
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press,
And move along just so,
Until we reach the part well known
To be the toe, the toe.
If there is any pressure,
Because they cannot easy walk,
The shoey missed the measure.
Just below the ball, across the toes,
Is where we next are found;
For there is nothing worn like shoes
When used upon the ground.
From here we feel like soaring higher,
And soon get at the ankle,
Which must be fit to suit the buyer,
Thus avoiding any wrangle.
Measure neat and true;
If anything is noticed there,
’Twill surely be the shoe.
That notice is just what we want,
From that we get our living;
And if we make a miss on that,
It might be past forgiving.
From toe to ankle we have come,
With an uncertain height,
And with the measures we’ve put down
Will now add that right.
Some like shoes high, some low;
But to have them fit is all the same,
And this we try to show.
Some in one way, some in another,
These measures have been taken,
Until we have them all together,
We should not try to shapen.
To work now by our measure marked
Will be our constant aim;
A pattern must be cut—
To start with that is plain.
But plainer still the shoe will be
From the pattern we shall cut,
Because we think you’ll all agree
What’s opened should be shut.
The shapes are clearly seen,
A vamp and quarter, with a tongue,
Worked just in between.
A stiffening of sole has found its way,
And asks that it be shown,
In order, at some future day,
Its use might be made known.
The parts, you see, stand thus alone,
But have a close relation;
Because these parts must all be shown
To keep their proper station.
One part not seen, in shape the same,
Is cut and called the lining,
Upon which each quarter must be placed—
We’ll not stop here defining—
The lining a little larger,
With the quarter pasted on it smooth,
If not there’ll come a charger.
The vamp, also, has been changed,
Only one-half appears,
The cause of which can be explained
In less time than number years.
When we the lower corners take,
And match them well in fact,
The centre we at once do make,
Which guides the following act—
With paste or cement for sewing,
Is done with care, as in this cut,
The fitness of things is showing.
The centre mark on the vamp we’ll use,
To get the quarters placed best,
By putting the vamp upon the two,
One-half inch above to rest.
One end is reached, but not the last;
This end from flax or cotton
Is made by some men very fast,
If the flax is not too rotten.
