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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

The River Rats

A Tree-top Retreat,

The Secret Grape-Vine Route.

Dangerous Toughs.

A Club-House in the Tree-tops,

The Desired Spot

A Two-Tree House.

How To Start.

A Blocks,

The B Poles

The Corbel Piece D

How to Build the Foundation.

Frame, Walls, and Roof.

A Rustic House.

The One-Tree House

A Three- and Four-Tree Foundation,

How to Capture and Trap Small Live Animals.

Chipmonks and Woodchucks!

Camp-Fire Club,

“Receiving-Cage.”

Rodents or Gnawers.

A Smudge

Flying-Squirrels,

The Cloth Bag

Short-Tailed Meadow-Rats

Utilizing Last Summer’s Birds’-Nests

White-Footed Mice as Pets.

Short-tailed Meadow-Rats

Jumping-mice,

Woodchucks

A Box-Trap, or Figure Four,

Musk-Rats

Our Reputation among the Brutes.

This Gory Method of Study

Worshipped with Canine Devotion,

Can Appreciate Kindness.

Lot Twenty-five Feet Wide

Crow and Dog did the Bossing

Galvanized Iron Wire-Cloth or Netting

The Mesh

A Pair of Foxes

Each Cage

To Make a Cage of Galvanized Wire-Netting,

The Door

The Doors for the Runway

A Reptile House

An Old Piece of Canvas,

Your Whole Collection

Silly Superstitions of Hoop-Snake Age.

Toads: Useful and Harmless.

Neither Do Toads Make Warts;

Frog Market.

Peepers

The Tree-Toad,

The Anderson Frog,

The Frog Has Teeth.

Lizards.

The Receiving-Cage.

The Value of Room.

A Shallow Pond,

If You Dig a Hole

Best Form for Such a Tank

Two Runners.

To Prevent the Wood from Decay

In the Shadiest Spot

When to Stock.

Handy for the Pets.

Catch Your Own Fish

Fresh-Water Clams

Avoid Salt-Water Sand,

Need Shelter

Chickens,

A Pigeon-Loft and Bantam-Coop

Rough Lumber Will Answer.

Pigeon-Loft Floor

Shutter Frames.

Roofing Material.

Doors.

The Shutters

Keep Clean.

The Hen’s-Nest

Pigeon-Nests.

For a Hen-Roost,

Drinking-Troughs.

Old Lard-Can,

Flying-Cage.

Bird’s-Nests in Washington’s Coat.

Bird’s-Nests in Speaking-Horn.

A Woodpecker’s House.

The Perforated Door

The Hinged Door

Bring the Martins Back

The Gourds for Bird’s Houses

Paint the Gourds

The Wren-House

Tin-Can Bird-Houses.

A House of Straw.

A Barrel for a Martin-House

Old Knot-holes

An Available Supply of Moist Clay

Little Native American

How to make Buildings Plumb and Level.

The Success of Americans

A Good Oil-stone,

A Hatchet

Use the Best Tools You Can Get.

A Level,

A Convenient, Home-Manufactured Plumb

A Workshop;

A Foundation,

How to Build the House.

Set Your Posts

Floor the Foundation

Make Your Ridge-Plank and Rafters

The “Purlins” and “Collar”

Examine the Corner-Posts

The First Stud

Make Your Door

The Window,

Side-Plate

The Skeleton of Your Shop.

The Rafters

Nail a Green Bough to your Roof-tree,

The Machine-shop,

Tool-rack

The Carpenter’s Bench,

To Protect your Auger-bits

Care of Shavings.

A Place for Tool-racks.

To Keep Small Things.

A Famous Old Rack,

American Gnomes

A Doorway at the Top

The Trap-Door

Dimensions of the House.

A Cross-Section

The Boys’ Underground Club-House

New Lumber,

Pitch to the Roof,

Framing.

Passageway.

There Are No Windows

The Roof

Gumption.

A Ventilator,

After the Grass Begins to Grow

Dangerous Caves.

Crusoe-Clubs,

Foundation of the Club-House Submerged,

The Building Material

A Soft Bottom,

True Robinson Crusoe Style,

Weave a Basket

The Foundation Posts

Fill the Crib with Stones.

More Binders,

The Bottom of the Pond

Always Level,

In a Large Building,

Temporary Diagonal Braces

An Artificial Island

“Joggling-Board.”

Turnpike Loo.

The Driver

Modern Pasteboard Box,

Pack the Ground Coffee,

The Rhode Island Clam-Bake,

Burgoo.

Clothes-boiler,

It Takes Time to Properly Cook a Burgoo,

When the Soup is Cooked

A Game of Jack-Fagots.

Old Dan Tucker.

Circle Around Tucker, Singing

The Words, They Sing

Crowding on Tucker

“Go Stand and Face Your Partner,”

“Now Let Old Tucker Join Us.”

Pitch-peg-pin Pitching

Let All the Girls,

The First Gentleman Takes

The Scores

Lawn Hab-enihan.

Imagination’s Mill

The Ghosts of the Fireplace

The Log-House

Trees of a Smaller Growth,

The “Skid”

Locate Your Cabin,

Build a Foundation

For Floor-Joists

The Floor-Supports

Log-Rolling.

Door and Window Opening

A Fireplace

Any Sort of a Roof

The Most Essential Piece of Furniture

The Bunks

Make a Lincoln Bed.

When Your House is Crowded,

Stuff all the Spaces Between the Logs

Make the Door

If You Have Money to Spend,

Oiled Paper for Glass, in Your Windows,

The Lamps

The Brownies Will Eat Them.

The Fireplace

Wooden Hammers, or Mauls,

Next Build Your Clay Walls

For the Chimney

Stick Chimneys

Table Takes Up Needed Room,

Three-Legged Stools.

General Camp Notes for Old Boys.

When You Start for Camp

How the Women Should Dress.

The Requirements for a Camp.

From the Stand-point of Health.

Making the Shack or Shelter.

The Brush-Covered Lean-to

In Tents with Roofed Verandas.

What is Needed for Table and Larder.

Whittling

Wooden Bugles,

Revolutionary Soldiers,

The Old Wooden Horn of Captain Bob Collins.

The Wabash Horn,

Among the Flat-boatmen

For a Mouth-piece,

A Unique Navy.

Some of These House-Boats

Big Square Sails,

House-Boat as a Fashionable Fad,

A Flat-Bottomed Scow,

Building Material.

The Sides of the House-Boat

Make Four End-Pieces,

Now for the Bottom.

The Bumpers

The Hull May Now be Painted,

Twenty-odd Ribs.

The Cabin of this House-Boat

Deck-Ribs

The Boat May Now be Launched

The Plans Show Three Lockers

The Keel

Side-Supports for the Cabin May be Erected.

Use Ordinary Flooring,

The Hatch.

Upper Deck

The Rafters,

Box in your Cabin

This Roof,

To Contrive a Movable Front

The Rudder,

A Pair of Rowlocks,

Two or more Ash Poles,

The Locker

A More Simple Set of Plans.

Canvas-Cabined House-Boat.

Information for Old Boys.

The Cost of House-Boats.

For People of Limited Means.

Street-Car Cabins.

“Switchback,”

The Wheels

The Flange

Set the Car-Bed Low.

Build the Axles

The Bottom of the Car

Starting Platform.

The Track

A Curved Track

Erect the Uprights

The Cross-ties, or Sleepers,

Ticket-Chopper’s Box.

Slipperies.

A War-Time Slippery.

Tropical Toboggan-Slide.

If Your Back-Yard is Wide

But if Your Yard is Long and Narrow,

A Frame,

The Incline May be Lengthened

A Toboggan Room.

“Packing” the Slide, or Chute,

It is a Wise Plan

The Bath-tub is a Splendid Receiving-Tank

As a Lake for His Fleet,

A Water-wheel,

The Shaft.

An Old Cigar-Box

Make Six Paddles,

Hanging-Bars.

If you Make a Frame,

Figures Which Move.

A Neat, Round Knot

A Toy is a Plaything,

Wooden Toothpicks

A Simple Toothpick Example,

Lift Three Safety-Matches with One Toothpick.

Explanation.

A Spring-Bed.

Artificial Water.

A Bridge of Matches.

Two Piers,

Two Approaches to the Bridge

Add a Roof

A Paper Flag,

A Pioneer Settlement,

The Chimneys

How to Make the Sleigh.

How to Make the Horses.

To Cut Out the Horse,

The Tongue, or Pole.

The Pasteboard Soldiers.

The Stirrups

Such an Ideal Soldier

Make an Army.

Walk through the Centre of a Visiting Card.

Grandmother’s Reticule

“Any Old Thing”

First American Flag.

To Cut a Five-pointed Star with One Clip of the Scissors,

Another Way to Cut a Five-pointed Star,

A Six-pointed Star can be made with One Cut,

The Cross,

Two Cuts, make the Cross into a Square.

We are all Born Artists.

The Name Chalk-Talk

Learn by Practise

Drawing-Board,

Size of Board.

The Height of the Easel

Tack the Paper

Keep a Sharp Knife

The Drawings Themselves

Begin Your Talk

A Stationary Object

Emblem of Stability.

Motion.

Another Meaning

Draw All Your Figures as Large as the Paper Will Permit

This Line Means Repose.

Something Which Needs Practice,

Evolution of the Ape

For Quick Work

How to Build and Decorate a Fireplace for Santa Claus.

The First Start

Back of the Chimney,

The Front Frame

The Remaining Pieces,

A Simple Task.

The Covering

To Line the Inside of the Fireplace.

Our American St. Nicholas

Costume for Jolly Old Santa Claus

The Coat.

Use a Fur Cap,

How to Put on the Clothes.

The Clock,

How the Old Saint’s Legs are Made

The Wig and Beard

The Curtains

The Sleigh

Good Things in a Bag,

When All is Ready

The Signal for Legs,

Concluded

How to Make the Horses and Other Animals, and How to Make the Costumes.

The Goat

Since the Writer’s Circus Days

The “Arab Steed”

A Feather-Duster May Do Service as a Tail.

The Neck-Bones

The Ribs

The Frame

The Reins

The Moa is the Giant Bird from New Zealand,

The Manicora

A Little Ingenuity,

The Dignified and Self-sufficient Ring-master

Tight-fitting Knee-breeches,

A Jersey or a Tight-fitting Undershirt

A Girl’s Old Turban Hat,

Knickerbockers,

Wrong Side Out

Take an Old Soft Felt Hat

Pajamas,

Making-Up

Old Boys

Invitations to a Boys’ Stag-Party,

Make the Target

Carpet Tacks

All the Large Vegetables

The Cabbage Bonbon Box

The Big Pie or Pudding

Knick-knacks and Jokes

The Ribbons Must be Loosely Knotted

Don’t Disappoint the Boys.

The Shooting.

The Numbers are All Recorded,

When All the Boys are Properly Decorated,

Great Trays, Heaped with Raw Garden-Stuff.

The Regular Spread May Be Served,

The Great “Fake” Cake

At a Given Signal

Patterns Are Here Given,

How to Reproduce the Patterns.

Rule the First Line

Again Take Your Two-foot

Next Trace Out the Cowboy,

After the Puppets Are Cut

Make a Round Knot

How it is Done.

As the Audience

For a Bridle

The Indian Horseman

The Buffalo,

A Piece of White Muslin,

A Good Panorama

The Subject

With Paste-pot and Shears,

Select Your Topic

Colored Figures,

The Works of the Panorama,

Build a Narrow Box,

Cut Some Dark Red Canton Flannel

The Stage

Footlights.

How the Panorama Box

Top Board

Make the Rollers of Broomsticks,

A Crank or Windlass

Big Show-Bills,

A Square Piece of Tin

Turn Out All the Lights

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