Crossword-Solution: INSOLE 6 letters, 128 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

This boot-leg, which has been twice sent out from the shop, now comes in to be again handed over to the maker, who receives the lasts, together with the leather soles, insoles, welts, stiffenings, shank-pieces, and other little matters essential to the work; not omitting, if the master knows his business, or considers the comfort of his customers, a good piece of _felt_, to insert _between_ the insole and outsole, to prevent the intolerable nuisance of creaking.

The best thing we have been able to discover is a simple plate of metal, standing upright between the great toe and its neighbour, so securely fastened to the insole as to prevent the toe from inclining toward the side.

The exact place for it must be determined by carefully measuring the foot, _while the toe is kept straight_ by the hand, and afterward measuring the same length on the insole, with the size-stick; the _width_ of the toe, as well as the foot’s length, being also taken, and in the same way.

The parts on each side of the level strip would be slightly convex, like the corresponding parts of the foot; not too much so, however, for then the last would be too rounding on the bottom, taking the whole width in view, which is as bad a fault as the hollow, or even worse; as it interferes more with the spreading of the transverse arch, and, by making a _concave_ upper surface to the insole of the shoe, compels the ball to tread into just such a hollow as would fit a broken-down, splay foot.

The sufferer may turn it on one side to avoid a peg, or some rough projection on the insole, and in this way the fault may be developed in some of those cases where one foot treads over, while the other stands upright.