Little Bellows
to send fresh air circulating through the smouldering embers. The bellows are easy to make. Cut two pieces of pasteboard like [Fig. 256], and cut two short strips of thin paper. Paste one edge of each strip to each side of one piece of cardboard bellows, fold the strips across the centre ([Fig. 256]), and attach the free ends of the folded strips to the other piece of pasteboard bellows, forming a hinge-like connection on each side between the two pasteboard sides. Paste the points of the two sides together up as far as the dotted line ([Fig. 256]). When thoroughly dry you can work the bellows by bringing the handles together and opening them as you would real bellows ([Fig. 257]).
Fig. [258].—Colonial pewter dish made of tinfoil.
Heavy tinfoil must furnish material for your
Pewter Ware;
Fig. [259].—The warp.
much of it has the same dull, leaden color and the peculiar look of old pewter. Should the pieces of tinfoil you find be twisted and uneven, lay them on a table and smooth out the creases with scissors or the dull edge of a knife-blade; then cut out round, flat pieces and holding one at a time in the palm of your left hand, round up the edges by rolling the ball of a hat-pin around and around the plate; press rather hard and soon the edges will begin to crinkle and turn upward ([Fig. 258]). You may mould some deeper than others and have a row of different-sized pewter plates on the kitchen mantel-piece, and you can make a wee pie in the deepest plate, open the oven-door and shove the pastry into the oven with the little iron peel. Try it.