If you are successful in making one soldier, with industry you may make a whole regiment of them, and then stand them in battle array and shoot them down with a pea-shooter.
Figs. 195-199.
Your conscience need not bother you in the least, if you slay a whole regiment, for the poor fellows won’t care a cent, and they will leave no widows and orphans behind to mourn for them. In fact, you can bring them all to life again, the next time you want a battle, by simply setting them upright upon their horses once more.
It sometimes happens that boys tire of soldiers and their murderous weapons, although both the soldier and his arms be but harmless paper.
At such a time the reader can put away his paper warriors and proclaim to his playmates that he is a wizard, and can
Walk through the Centre of a Visiting Card.
He may prove that this is no vain boast by folding the card, Fig. 192, across its centre (Fig. 193), and with scissors cutting slits where the lines are drawn on Fig. 193.
When the card is unfolded it will be found to resemble Fig. 194, and may be stretched carefully until it can be passed over the head, down over the body to the feet; then as the self-proclaimed wizard steps out of the card he may truthfully say that he has walked through a visiting card.
After this he may entertain his playmates by making a