INDEX
INDEX
- A
- Ancient mariners, [5]
- Animals, kindness to, [33], [34]
- Ape, evolution of, [234]
- “Arab steed,” how to make an, [254]
- Army, to make a pasteboard, [217]
- Artificial water, [206]
- Aviary, how to make a back-yard, [63]
- Axe, tree-top club-house built with, [10]
- Axles, car-wheel, [172]
- B
- Bantam coops, [55]
- Beard, Frank, [224]
- Beard, Santa Claus’s, [249]
- Bed, Daniel Boone cabin, [123];
- Lincoln, [124]
- Binders, to make water club-house foundation, [101]
- Birds, [63]
- Bonbon box, the cabbage, [265]
- Buffalo, to make a herd of, [276]
- Bugles, wooden, [141]
- Building material, house-boat, [150]
- Bumpers, house-boat, [155]
- Bunks, house-boat, [164]
- Burgoo, Kentucky, [107];
- ingredients of a, [109];
- how to cook a, [109]
- Burgoo master, [108], [109]
- Bridge of matches, [206]
- Bridle, to make a, [274]
- C
- Cabin, how to build and furnish a Daniel Boone, [116];
- lumber for, [118];
- ground plan of [6] × [10], [119]
- Cabin, house-boat, [157];
- street-car used as, [168]
- Cage, to make a galvanized-wire netting, [39];
- receiving, [46]
- Cake, the “Fake,” [266], [268]
- Camera, hunting with the, [20]
- Camp dress, women’s, [133]
- Camping out. See Daniel Boone cabin, [116]
- Carp, [52]
- Carpet tacks as blow-gun darts, [264]
- Cars, back-yard switchback, [170]
- Catfish, [52]
- Centre-piece, house-boat, [151]
- Chalk talk, how to give a, [222]
- Chestnut wood for foundation posts, [75]
- Chickens, coops for, [54];
- need of shelter for, [54];
- material for coop, [56]
- Chimney, Daniel Boone cabin, [130];
- stick, [131];
- Santa Claus’s, [238]
- Chipmonks, [19];
- how to trap, [26];
- food for, [26];
- wire cage for, [37]
- Circus, a home-made, [191];
- in the attic, [253]
- Clam-bake, the Rhode Island, [107]
- Clams, fresh-water, in confinement, [53]
- Club-house, water, [97]
- Club-house, underground, [89]
- Club-house, a tree-top, [3];
- underground, [4];
- grape-vine approach to, [7];
- a two-tree, [9];
- selection of trees for, [10];
- how to build, [10];
- foundation of, [14];
- the vine-tree, [16];
- three- and four-tree foundation, [18]
- Coat, Santa Claus, [245]
- Cobblestones for bracing water club-house cribs, [102]
- “Collar,” back-yard workshop, [80]
- Collins, Captain Bob, [141], [142]
- Cowboy, to make a, [273]
- Crank, panorama, [284]
- Crawfish, [52]
- Creepers, nests for, [65]
- Cribs, water club-house foundation, [100], [102]
- Crusoe clubs, [97]
- Crusoe raft, [150]
- D
- Dace, [52]
- Daniel Boone cabin, how to build and furnish a, [116];
- lumber for, [118]
- Darts, carpet-tacks as blow-gun, [264]
- Deck, house-boat, [160]
- Door, back-yard workshop, [82];
- underground club-house, [89], [95];
- back-yard zoo, [4];
- pigeon and bantam coop, [58];
- Daniel Boone cabin, [121], [125], [129]
- Drawing-board, chalk-talk, [225]
- Drinking-troughs for pigeons and bantams, [61]
- E
- Enihan. See Lawn hab-enihan, [114]
- F
- Feather-duster as a tail, [254]
- Fireplace, Daniel Boone cabin, [122], [128], [130];
- Santa Claus, [237], [243]
- First Gentleman. See Pitch-peg-pin pitching, [112]
- First Lady. See Pitch-peg-pin pitching, [112]
- Fish, food for, [53]
- Fish-pond, a back-yard, [48];
- how to stock, [52]
- Flat-boatman’s horn, [139]
- Flooring, house-boat, [160]
- Floor-joists, Daniel Boone cabin, [120]
- Floor-supports, Daniel Boone cabin, [120]
- Flower-pots, bird-nests in, [68]
- Flying-cage for pigeons, [62]
- Flying-squirrel, trapping, [21], [23]
- Footlights, panorama stage, [282]
- Foundation, tree-top club-house, [9], [14], [18];
- back-yard workshop, [76];
- water club-house, [97], [99], [101];
- Daniel Boone cabin, [120]
- Foxes, wire cage for, [37];
- anecdote of, [38]
- Frame, tree-top club-house, [14];
- underground club-house, [92]
- Frogs, house for, [41];
- varieties of, [42];
- market for, [44];
- the Anderson, [45]
- G
- Games with toothpicks and matches, [201]
- Gnawers, [21];
- cages for, [37]
- Goldfish, [52]
- Gourds, martin nests in, [66]
- Grape basket, wren nests in, [66]
- Grandmother’s reticule, [218]
- H
- Hab. See Lawn hab-enihan, [114]
- Hanging-bars, [194]
- Hatch, house-boat, [160]
- Horn, flat-boatman’s, [139];
- Captain Bob Collins’s, [142];
- Wabash, [143];
- how to make a Wabash, [143];
- to make a Captain Bob Collins’s, [142]
- House, how to make a pasteboard, [212]
- House-boat, canvas-cabined, [166]
- House-boat, how to build the American boy’s, [146];
- cost of, [167] [168]
- I
- Indian, to make an, [273]
- Island, artificial, [104]
- J
- Jack-fagots, [110]
- “Joggling board,” [105]
- Johnson, Colonel Richard, [141]
- K
- Kentucky burgoo, [107]
- L
- Lamps for Daniel Boone cabin, [127]
- Lawn hab-enihan, [114]
- Lean-to, how to make a, [136]
- Level, a home-made, [74]
- Lizards, house for, [41], [46]
- Lockers, house-boat, [158], [164]
- Log house, how to build a, [116]
- Log-rolling, [121]
- Lumber for underground club-house, [92];
- for Daniel Boone cabin, [118]
- M
- Machine shop, [83], [85]
- Making up, [262]
- Manicora, how to make the, [257]
- Matches, good games with, [201];
- a bridge of, [206]
- Mice, learning, [25];
- habits of, [27];
- white-footed, [24];
- as pets, [25];
- food for, [26]
- Mink, habits of, [31];
- how to trap, [31];
- author’s anecdote of, [32]
- Moa, how to make the, [257]
- Motion, how to suggest, [230]
- Musk-rats, Captain John Smith’s description of, [30];
- how to trap, [31];
- in captivity, [31];
- cage for, [37]
- Mussels, [53]
- N
- Nails, frame of tree-top club-house fastened with, [12]
- Nests, pigeon and bantam, [60];
- birds’-nests in Washington’s coat, [63];
- the speaking-horn, [63];
- woodpecker, [64];
- martin, [66];
- wren, [66];
- tin-can, [68]
- O
- Oilcloth for underground club-house roof, [94]
- Oiled paper for glass, Daniel Boone cabin windows, [127]
- Oil-stove, [73]
- Old Dan Tucker, [110], [111], [112]
- P
- Paddles, how to make, [193]
- Panorama box, how to make, [283]
- Panorama show, a, [218]
- Passageway, underground club-house, [93]
- Pattern, how to reproduce, for Wild West show, [270]
- Peepers, how to capture, [45]
- Pennsylvania pond stew, [107]
- Pheasants, cage for, [37]
- Picnic, how to have fun at a, [105]
- Picnic box, [106]
- Pigeons, lofts for, [54];
- material needed in making, [56];
- nests for, [60];
- drinking-troughs for, [61]
- Pitch-peg-pin pitching, [112]
- Plumb, a home-made, [75]
- Prairie chickens, cage for, [37]
- Purlins, back-yard workshop, [80]
- Q
- Quail, wire cage for, [37]
- R
- Rabbits, cage for, [37]
- Rafters of tree-top club-house, [14];
- back-yard workshop, [79];
- underground club-house, [94];
- house-boat, [160]
- Rat, [21];
- short-tailed meadow, [23], [26];
- wire cage for, [37]
- Receiving-cage, [21]
- Receiving-tank, bath-tub as, [191]
- Reins, Arab steed, [256]
- Reptiles, house for, [41]
- Ribs, house-boat, [156], [157];
- Arab steed, [255]
- Ridge-plank, how to make a, [79]
- Ring-master, dress of, [259]
- River people, [147]
- River-rats, [5]
- Robinson Crusoe, [4]
- Rock bass, [52]
- Rodents, [21];
- cages for, [37]
- Rollers, panorama, [284]
- Roof, tree-top club-house, [14];
- underground club-house, [92], [94];
- Daniel Boone cabin, [123];
- house-boat, [162]
- Roost, pigeon and bantam, [60]
- Rowlocks, house-boat, [163]
- Rudder, house-boat, [162]
- Ruffed grouse, cage for, [37]
- Runway, doors for, [41]
- S
- Santa Claus, costume for, [245];
- how to make two boys into one, [248]
- Santa Claus fireplace, how to make a, [237]
- Sap-suckers, nests for, [65]
- Settlement, a pioneer, [208]
- Shack, how to make a, [135]
- Shanty, cost of a, [136]
- Show, a Wild West, [270];
- a panorama, [278]
- Show-bills, panorama, [286]
- Shutters for pigeon and bantam coops, [59]
- Sleigh, how to make a pasteboard, [211]
- Sleigh, Santa Claus’s, [250]
- Slipperies, [182];
- war-time, [182]
- Smudge, capturing flying-squirrels with a, [22]
- Snakes, house for, [41];
- poisonous, [42];
- varieties of, [42];
- superstitions about, [43]
- Soldiers, to make pasteboard, [215]
- Speaking-horn, birds’-nests in, [63]
- Squirrel, cage for, [37]
- Stairs, water club-house, [103]
- Stability, emblem of, [229]
- Stage, panorama, [282]
- Stag-party, a boys’, [263]
- Stars, to cut five- and six-pointed stars with one clip, [220]
- Starting platform, switchback railway, [173]
- Stool, cabin, [131]
- Street-car cabin, house-boat with, [168]
- Struts in tree-top club-house, [18]
- Sunfish, [52]
- Supplies, camp, [133]
- St. Nicholas, our American, [243]
- Swallows, [70], [71]
- Swiss Family Robinson, [4]
- Switchback, a back-yard, [170]
- T
- Table, log cabin, [131];
- supplies for, [137]
- Tank, back-yard fish-pond, [48], [49]
- Tar used on underground club-house roof, [94]
- Tents, cost of, [136]
- Ticket-chopper’s box, [180]
- Toads, house for, [41];
- superstitions about, [43], [44]
- Toboggan room, [186]
- Toboggan slide, how to build a, [182];
- tropical, [184]
- Tools for building tree-top club house, [10];
- for making back-yard zoo, [35];
- for making back-yard fish-pond, [49];
- for back-yard workshop, [73];
- for making water club-house, [98];
- care of, [86]
- Tool-rack, [86], [88]
- Toothpicks, good games with, [201]
- Track, switchback railway, [178]
- Trap, mouse, [24], [25];
- the wooden box, [28];
- the tin-can, [29];
- a figure-[4], [30]
- Trapping, [19]
- Tree-top club-house, [3]
- Turnpike zoo, [106]
- Turtles, house for, [41]
- U
- Underground club-house, [89]
- V
- Ventilation, underground club-house, [95], [96]
- Virginia soup, [107]
- W
- Wabash horn, [143]
- Walls, tree-top club-house, [14]
- Washington, birds’-nests in coat of, [63]
- Water-wheel, how to make a, [192]
- Wheels, switchback car, [170]
- Whittling, prevalence of, [139]
- Wig, Santa Claus’s, [249]
- Wild West show, [270]
- Windlass, panorama, [284]
- Window, back-yard workshop, [82];
- Daniel Boone cabin, [121]
- Wire cloth, [36]
- Wire, galvanized iron, for back-yard zoo, [36];
- for pigeon loft and bantam coop, [58]
- Wire netting, [36]
- Woodchucks, [19];
- as pets, [27];
- how to trap, [27];
- habits of, [30];
- cage for, [37]
- Woodpeckers, nests for, [65]
- Workshop, a boy’s back-yard, [72];
- how to build, [77]
- Wren, nest for, [66]
- Z
- Zoo, a back-yard, [33]
A NEW BOOK FOR INVENTIVE BOYS
By DANIEL C. BEARD
The Jack of All Trades
OR, NEW IDEAS FOR AMERICAN BOYS