. Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies. door and see the holes on the insideof the top; run your needle through one of these holes and A Toy Colonial Kitchen 55 across the top on the outside, down through theother hole into the clock. Slipthe needle off the thread andmould another piece of bees-wax on the free end of thethread, make it the same sizeand shape as the first weight,cover this also with tinfoil andyou will have clock-weights (Fig. 273) for wind-ing up the old-fash- ioned timepiece. Gently pull down one weight and the othe
. Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies. door and see the holes on the insideof the top; run your needle through one of these holes and A Toy Colonial Kitchen 55 across the top on the outside, down through theother hole into the clock. Slipthe needle off the thread andmould another piece of bees-wax on the free end of thethread, make it the same sizeand shape as the first weight,cover this also with tinfoil andyou will have clock-weights (Fig. 273) for wind-ing up the old-fash- ioned timepiece. Gently pull down one weight and the other will go up, just as your colonial forefathers wound their clocks. When the weight is pulled down in the real clock it winds up the machinery, and the clock continues its tick, tack, tick, like the ancient timepiece Longfellow tells us of, stationed in the hall of the old-fashioned you like real country buttermilk, and have you everhelped churn ? If you live in the city or for some otherreason are not able to make the butter, you can still enjoymanufacturing a little. Fig. 273.—Weights for windingthe clock.
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