[4] Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, and his brother, Langdon Gibson, naturalist and traveller.
[5] An account of this frog is in “The American Boy’s Handy Book.”
[6] The South has also the venomous water-moccasin or cotton-mouth, and the poisonous but timid coral and harlequin-snakes.
[7] Snakes in neighborhood of New York: Dangerous—Banded rattlesnake, copperhead. Harmless, can be domesticated—Black-snake, worm-snake, ringnecked-snake, black pilot-snake, green-snake, water-snake, brown-snake, hognosed-snake (adder), milk-snake, garter-snake, ribbon-snake.
[8] For description and diagrams see “The Outdoor Handy Book.”
[9] “The American Boy’s Handy Book.”
[10] Toe-nailing, or foot-nailing, consists in driving the nails diagonally or slantingly down through the ends of the beams to the sill, in place of nailing through from the top down to the sill.
[11] See p. 100, “The American Boy’s Handy Book.”
[12] Another plan is described in Chapter XXIV.