Fig.31 - The Pussy-Willow Bunnies.
| Fig.32 - Pussy-Willow Squirrel, enlarged. | Fig.33 - Paper tail, enlarged, for squirrel. |
Pussy-Willow Rabbits
Take a small branch of the very largest pussies you can find, have ready some scraps of smooth, fresh writing-paper, a piece of cardboard, pair of scissors, and some good paste. It only requires long ears to change the pussy-willows into bunnies. Cut the ears from your writing-paper like the pattern [Fig. 30]. Put paste on the strip between the letters G and H, then take a pussy from the branch and stick the paste-covered strip just above the small end of the pussy, which will be the bunny's head. The arrow I, [Fig. 30], points to the place for the ears. When the paste has dried bend the ears up like the ears of the rabbits in [Fig. 31]. Make three or four rabbits to keep each other company and paste them in a row on your piece of cardboard.
Fig.34 - The Pussy-Willow Bumble-Bee.
A Pussy-Willow Squirrel
This little gray squirrel ([Fig. 32]), sitting up in such a lifelike pose, must be made of a slightly bent, rather long, slender pussy. Pull forward some of the fur near the small end so that it will look like the front legs of the squirrel when he holds a nut in his hand-like front paws, and push up two tufts on the head for ears. The pussy from which [Fig. 32] was made already had these tufts for legs and ears, and it looked so much like a squirrel one simply had to add the tail and let it be a squirrel.