When the target is finished lay it aside, and busy yourselves making darts for the blow-guns. Take a number of
Carpet Tacks
and some bright-colored worsted; tie the worsted string to the tack until the latter is covered, all but its point, then push all the ends of the strings back to the head of the tack and cut them off evenly, leaving them about a quarter of an inch long.
When one of these darts is shot through the blow-gun it will stick into anything it hits, unless the target be of stone or metal.
When the darts are all made lay them aside, with the blow-guns and the target, and go to the market and secure a basketful of an assortment of
All the Large Vegetables
you can find—big turnips, the largest sweet potatoes, small squashes, field-beets, and compact cabbages. Some of the vegetables in this list may be out of season, but there will always be some that are in season.
Figs. 280 and 281.
Cut the top of each turnip, beet, potato, and squash, leaving a slanting or beveled edge to the lid (Fig. 280); then hollow out the vegetable until you have space enough to hold a fair-sized paper of candy. Put the candy in oiled paper, place it in the hollow vegetable and fit the lid on the top, where it can be secured by using wooden toothpicks as tacks (Fig. 281). If this work has been done with any sort of care, no one, not in the secret, will suspect that it is not a common vegetable.