Connect the two small wheels ([Fig. 231]) and the large wheel together by passing a string between the small wheels and over around the outside of the tire of the large wheel, fastening it on here and there with a little glue ([Fig. 228]). Twist a piece of raw cotton on the spindle and tie a length of white darning-cotton to the end of the cotton ([Fig. 228]).
| Fig. [236].—Spindle. | Fig. [237].—Leg. | Fig. [238].—Screw. | Fig. [239].—Block. |
Fig. [241].—Hair-pin.
Fig. [240].—Do her hair up in this fashion.
Stretch the thread across to the hand of your colonial-dressed doll, glue it in place, and the next time your mother attends a meeting of the Society of Colonial Dames tell her to show your little maid Thankful Parker and her spinning-wheel. When you
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coil her hair up on top of her head ([Fig. 240]) and fasten it in place with common pins ([Fig. 241]). Make the straight bang look as nearly as possible as though the hair were drawn up into a Pompadour such as was worn in Colonial times.