What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 263
ing accom-plished this, and dusted again with the Indian meal, the thighsmust be pressed inward and the skin turned back far enough tcallow you to use your knife and disarticulate the hip-joint.Bend the tail toward the back ; keep down the detached skinupon each side of the incision with the thumb… … Fig. I The Incision. Practical Taxidermy for Boys. 235 point, but be careful to leave a large enough piece of it to sup-port the tail feathers. Take the part of the body which is now denuded of the skinin the left hand and peel the skin upward to the wings ; duringthis operation your knife or small…
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