PART VI
VEGETABLES
CHAPTER XXII
THINGS YOU CAN MAKE OF LIMA BEANS
Vegetables are good to eat, certainly, and you know what they are like when cooked and on the dinner-table; but many are also good to play with. You can make fine toys of them, toys that are entirely different from any you have ever seen. Here is the
Swimming Fish Made of a Lima-Bean Pod
A fish that really swims, not on top of the water but in it, is the little fish ([Fig. 146]). You won't find that in a shop or anywhere else, for I have only just discovered how to make it myself.
Fig.146 - The Lima Bean Fish will swim.