. Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies. ers with one clip. Adopt the sameplan with the other parts of clothing for the little people, and yourwork will be rapid. The next scene (Fig. 14) is of a large, substantial log-housewith outside log chimney, like the houses built many years ago,when our country was new and timber plenty, to be had often forthe mere cutting, and when people united in a frolic for the log-rolling necessary in bringing together logs to erect a house. 6 Fun with Nothing but Clothes-Pins With long logs (Fig. 3) build one hous


. Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies. ers with one clip. Adopt the sameplan with the other parts of clothing for the little people, and yourwork will be rapid. The next scene (Fig. 14) is of a large, substantial log-housewith outside log chimney, like the houses built many years ago,when our country was new and timber plenty, to be had often forthe mere cutting, and when people united in a frolic for the log-rolling necessary in bringing together logs to erect a house. 6 Fun with Nothing but Clothes-Pins With long logs (Fig. 3) build one house fourteen layers up against one side of this house build another house like it,and unite the two into one house under one newspaper roof. Makethe slanting roof of a piece of newspaper creased lengthwise throughthe centre, and its lengthwise edges bent out a trifle and fastenedon the logs with a few drops of paste (Fig. 14). Flat against thecentre of one end of tHe house build an old-fashioned log chimney;make it of single clothes-pins exactly as you build the lower part of. Fig. 14,—Wash-day on the clothes-pin estate. the block-house, only this time build up twenty-one layers high, asin the picture. Then make the front portico. Form the pillarsand framework for the little log roof by running the extreme openend of one clothes-pin into that of another and spreading out thetwo attached pins into a very widely opened letter V. Turn the Vupside down, and stand the head of one pin (which is also the topend of one side of the V) on the ground, while you rest the otherhead or top end on the logs of the front of the house. Make three Fun with Nothing but Clothes-Pins 7 more Vs, place the second V against the house near the first one,then allow a short space for the doorway in front of the line wherethe two halves of the building meet, and stand up a third V, andnear it a fourth one. Over the slanting framework roof lay four long logs (). Make a log flooring for the


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