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Show Cameo Cutting Hard Work Much skill Is exercised by the expert cameo cutter. He tan only work at his task for a few hours at a time, because of nerve strain. A quavering hnnd may be responsible for the single stroke which will spoil a week's work. He roust have an eye like a microscope, micro-scope, and a very delicate touch ; he must be an artist in soul, and as skillful skill-ful a craftsman as Is a watchmaker; he must know ho to model and draw, and he must have a knowledge of chemistry, so as to remove offending spots. The work la executed in relief on many kinds of hard or precious atones, but especially the cnalcedonlc variety of quarts and on shells, v |