It is a boat like this most primitive one that you can make of
Half of an Orange Skin
It will float, too, and ride safely the roughest waves of the bathtub sea. As it is perfectly water-tight, Miss Dolly need have no fear of wetting her dainty skirts as she sits in the bottom of the boat.
| Fig. 577.—Cut an orange exactly in half. | Fig. 578.—Carefully remove the pulp. |
Cut an orange exactly in halves like [Fig. 577]. Slide the blade of a penknife around the edge, loosening the pulp from the skin, then cut the pulp in quarters and remove it piece by piece as in [Fig. 578]. When all is taken out you have your little boat ([Fig. 579]) and your orange besides.
Fig. 579.—The coracle.
Place the coracle in a basinful of water, put a small doll in it, stir the water round and round with a stick, and watch the boat glide along as swiftly as if its little occupant were paddling with all her might.
From the skin of the banana an almost