What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . Fig. 2. Fig. 4 Fig. 3 each side of the handle, and with the handle under the bottomof the cup. (Fig. 1.) The centreof gravity is thus made low,and if you experiment a little and have a little skill, and asteady hand you can balance the whole on a pencils point. Or you can balance a coin edgeway on a needles needle is stuck firmly into the cork of a bottle, and the coin 124 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW? is fixed in a slit cut in a cork, in which two forks are stuck.(Fig. 2.) The simplest of these tricks is to balance a pencil on thetip
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . Fig. 2. Fig. 4 Fig. 3 each side of the handle, and with the handle under the bottomof the cup. (Fig. 1.) The centreof gravity is thus made low,and if you experiment a little and have a little skill, and asteady hand you can balance the whole on a pencils point. Or you can balance a coin edgeway on a needles needle is stuck firmly into the cork of a bottle, and the coin 124 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW? is fixed in a slit cut in a cork, in which two forks are stuck.(Fig. 2.) The simplest of these tricks is to balance a pencil on thetip of your finger by sticking two pen-knives in it, one on eachside. (Fig. 3.) A cork with two forks stuck in it can be made to balancealmost anywhere—on the neck of a bottle from which the con-tents are being poured for instance. (See fig. 4.) Amusing toys can be constructed on this dolls are made of light wood or cork, glued to theflat side of a half bullet. JSTo matter how often they are knockedflat, they rise again at once. The Dancing Eg
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