The Fence
You can make a fence to put around the house in this way: Push a large pea on each end of a whole toothpick like [Fig. 177], then break a toothpick exactly in half, stick one end of each half into the lower parts of the peas to form uprights, and push the lower end of each of these uprights into another pea as shown in [Fig. 178]. For the slanting crosspiece stick one end of another toothpick into the upper pea at the left-hand side, and the other end into the lower pea at the right-hand side ([Fig. 179]). Add a toothpick between the two lower peas, and one section of the fence is finished ([Fig. 180]).
Fig.179 - Put in a slanting crosspiece.
Fig.180 - The finished section and the way to begin a new section of the fence.
Begin another section by sticking one end of a toothpick into a new pea and the other end into the upper pea at the left side of the section you have just finished ([Fig. 180]), then put in half a toothpick for the upright, a pea on the bottom of that, a whole toothpick for the slanting crosspiece, and another whole toothpick for the bottom.
In this way you can keep on adding section after section and make your fence any length. To turn a corner all you have to do is to push the toothpicks which form the upper and lower crosspieces of a new section in at the back of the top and bottom peas of an end section of the fence.