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First action: a flat cut to conserve this line - with chisel. Then series of lines downward with point to cut away and in - leaving the block eu echère -down abt 4 inches, to give semblance of cut away under head (badly expressed!)

Then, because the head is the highest point in this piece, H. said to cut roughley the silhouette of the back line in a downward slant (Rather than the usual procedure of the front line of the cranium and cutting at angles in a little to [[?]]gage the "nose" or face)

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