StNicholas [serial] . ard across the back from side to sidein like manner. On top of these two cards buildon two more reaching across the sides from frontto back. Continue building in this way until themill is six stories high; then bring the top edgesof the last two cards together to form the make the arms of the mill, fasten eight longnarrow cards together into pairs of two cardseach. If your cards are too wide trim them. Make a slit almost half-way across one end ofeach of the four arms; then cut slits of about thesame length up from the center edge of the sidecards immediately unde
StNicholas [serial] . ard across the back from side to sidein like manner. On top of these two cards buildon two more reaching across the sides from frontto back. Continue building in this way until themill is six stories high; then bring the top edgesof the last two cards together to form the make the arms of the mill, fasten eight longnarrow cards together into pairs of two cardseach. If your cards are too wide trim them. Make a slit almost half-way across one end ofeach of the four arms; then cut slits of about thesame length up from the center edge of the sidecards immediately under the peak and cut similarslits at the top center edge of the front and backcards forming the next lower story. Fit and slide in at right angles the slit on oneof the long narrow arms, fasten it into the slit onthe lower edge of the top story. Fasten anotherarm on the opposite side in the same way, andadjust the two remaining arms into the slits onthe top edge of the two cards forming the front 70 VISITING-CARD HOUSES. FIG. IO. THE PAGODA. and back of next lower story as in the photo-graph (Fig. 9). Tell the children they can build a skyscraperby making a foundation likethat on the mill and then build-ing up the cards to a greatheight and omitting the wingsor arms. If the cards are kepteven and the building straightthe children can build uptwenty-eight inches or more. The Japanese pagoda () is built in the same wayas the mill, minus the arms,and with the addition of pro-jectures along the sides. Theseprojectures are made of twolong, narrow cards each, thetwo cards fastened togetherat the center like Fig. 5 ; thenthe ends are bent up and the strip laid across from side to side on the top edgeof the two side cards which form every otherstory. The pagoda is ten stories high with theapex roof built on a strip of two cards bent up at the ends. Both the mill and pagoda may be glued,if it is desired to preserve them; but all the build-ings can be erected without the aid of glue.
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