While it was still very hot, he took a sharp pointed knife from his belt and with a turn of his hand cut a small round hole, low down on one side.

The mouth was widened and then turned in and out like the leaf of a carnation.

He left the cooling piece on the pontil, lying across the arms of the stool, and took his blow-pipe again.
"Has the fellow not finished his tricks yet ?" asked Piero discontentedly.
It would have given him pleasure to smash the beautiful thing to atoms where it lay, almost within his reach.

Zorzi began to make the spout, for it was a large ampulla that he was fashioning.

He drew the glass out, widened it, narrowed it, cut it, bent it and finished off the nozzle before he touched it with wet iron and made it drop into the ashes.