SECTION II.
MODEL-MAKING—MOVING AND OTHERWISE.
CHAPTER V.—SOME SIMPLE MODELS FOR BEGINNERS.
I. How to make a Boat with a Screw Propeller.
By F. Chasemore.
To make a model steamboat that will go is the ambition of most boys, but the high price of engine and boiler deters many from doing so. In this chapter instructions are given for making a model screw steamboat, the machinery for which every boy can make for himself, by the exercise of a little ingenuity, at a very trifling cost—which machinery, too, may be fitted into any boat, the rigging of which may have gone by the board off the dangerous coast of the duck-pond.
