Split the hair in half with your left thumb and fore finger (all instructions are for right handed tiers).

At length he ventured to take me up behind by the Middle between his fore Finger and Thumb, and brought me within three Yards of his Eyes, that he might behold my Shape more perfectly.

As he spoke, he laid his long fore-finger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast , as if it ad been red hot.