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 discover the bone, but that we must try to find, because from the ankle-bone we get the triangular shape of the heel and the flat tread of the sole. The fold of fat above the ankle marks the deepest part of the foot and the highest line of the instep. This line descends steeply to the root of the toes, and expands in the bold curves of the five toes.

Now borrow your mother's shoe. Place that before you and on a level with your eyes. (If you begin by trying to draw the shoe very much beneath you, or, for the matter of