Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls

by Lina Beard; Adelia B. Beard

Fig. [234].—Upright.

Cut from cardboard the spokes ([Fig. 229]) for your miniature colonial spinning-wheel, the tire ([Fig. 230]), and the two small wheels ([Fig. 231]). Bend forward the fan-shaped ends of each spoke ([Fig. 229]) and glue the tire (Fig. 230) around on them; let one edge of tire lie flush on the edges of the bent ends of the spokes.

With the exception of the square spaces AA and BB on the stand ([Fig. 232]) cut the heavy lines and the little holes; score, then bend the dotted lines. Bend down the long sides and the ends fitting the corners against and on the inside of the same letters on the sides, glue these in place and you have a long, narrow box with two extensions on one side (HH and GG). Bend these extensions, also their ends II and JJ, and glue the ends on the inside of the opposite side of the box against the places marked II and JJ.

Turn the box over, bringing the level smooth side uppermost. Cut out the wheel brace ([Fig. 233]), turn it over on the other side, then bend AA backward and BB forward, and glue the brace on the box-like stand ([Fig. 232]) on the squares AA and BB. See [Fig. 228].

Make the upright ([Fig. 234]) of wood; shave both sides of the end, KK, until it is flat and thin, then glue a small wheel ([Fig. 231]) on each side, raising the wheels above the wood that the flat end of the upright may reach only to their centres. Glue the wheels together to within a short distance of their edges.

With the red-hot end of a hat-pin bore the hole LL through the front of the upright, and below bore another hole, MM, through the side. Make the screw ([Fig. 238]) and the block ([Fig. 239]) of wood. Run the screw through the side hole MM in the upright ([Fig. 234]), and push the screw on through the hole in the top of the block ([Fig. 239]). Break off more than half of a wooden toothpick for the spindle ([Fig. 236]) and pass it through the hole LL ([Fig. 234]).

Fig. [235].—Hub.

Make the hub ([Fig. 235]) of wood and thread it in through the wheel and brace ([Fig. 233]), to hold the wheel in place. Use two wooden toothpicks, with the ends broken off ([Fig. 237]), for legs; insert these slantingly into the holes, GG ([Fig. 232]), on the under part of the stand, allowing the top ends to reach up and rest against the under side of the top of the stand. Spread out the bottom ends of the legs.

Run the upright ([Fig. 234]) through the single hole near one end of the stand ([Fig. 232]) and pass it down through the under hole on HH. The lower part of the upright forms the third leg. See that all three legs set evenly when the wheel stands, and that the box part is raised slightly higher at the upright end, slanting downward toward the other end ([Fig. 228]). Glue the three legs firmly in place.