A BALL OF TWINE AND WHAT MAY BE MADE OF IT
Fig. 24.—The hammock you can make.
RUN to the kitchen and ask the cook to lend you her pastry-board for a day or two, to use as a support for holding string from which to make a toy hammock ([Fig. 24]).
Drive twelve large tacks in a straight line across the top edge of the board; place the tacks one inch and a half apart ([Fig. 25]), and with a pencil draw lightly a line across the board from side to side, one inch and a half below the tacks. This will guide you in keeping the knots even. Be sure that the line is perfectly straight; then draw another line one inch and a half below the first and continue making lines until the board is covered with them, at equal distances apart and running across from side to side. Over each tack on the top of the board hang a piece of string about two yards long ([Fig. 26]). Being doubled, each string makes two lengths of one yard each.
Fig. [25].—Tacks in top of board.
Fig. [26].—Over each tack hang a piece of string.