If you cut too low you will find a second bone, which will probably prevent your sword passing through.
If you cut too near the shank, it will be a bad section.
Before cutting at the “pope’s eye,” you may cut a thin slice or two off the bottom.
See that the shank bone has not been broken. Butchers often break it. It would probably spoil your cut.
For this and the sheep use the lead-cutting sword, and take care that the gallows is firm.
PLATE XXXII.
To Cut a Broom handle or Wand on Two Glasses of Water without Breaking The Glasses or Spilling the Water.
PLATE XXXII.—CUTTING A BROOM HANDLE ON WINE GLASSES.
Take your lead-cutting stool and another of exactly the same height. Place a tumbler filled with water on the top of each, then lay an ordinary broom handle on the glasses, so that the ends will rest on the inside edges, each end projecting about half an inch over the water.
With your lead-cutter deliver a downward chop with great suddenness and quickness, striking as near the centre as possible.