. New games and amusements for young and old alike. , rightinto the rocky cove at my feet, where I at onceclambered down to see what manner of craftshe was. When, a few minutes later, the victorwas slowly drawn from the water, I carefullynoted her simplicity of construction; and inorder that all of my boy readers may make onejust like her, I have appended the followingdetailed instructions: HOW TO MAKE THE BOAT Take a piece of board two feet long, eightinches wide and one inch thick, and draw apencil line along its entire length, and in thecentre. On this line, an inch from one end,bore a hole
. New games and amusements for young and old alike. , rightinto the rocky cove at my feet, where I at onceclambered down to see what manner of craftshe was. When, a few minutes later, the victorwas slowly drawn from the water, I carefullynoted her simplicity of construction; and inorder that all of my boy readers may make onejust like her, I have appended the followingdetailed instructions: HOW TO MAKE THE BOAT Take a piece of board two feet long, eightinches wide and one inch thick, and draw apencil line along its entire length, and in thecentre. On this line, an inch from one end,bore a hole three-eighths of an inch in diameternearly through the board. Half an inch from187 NEW GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS the other end, and on same pencil Hne, put in adeHcate screw eye that has an inside diameterof three-eighths of an inch, and then cut yourboard into the shape of the boat as shown inillustration (Fig. 25). Now take a stick nine inches long and halfan inch square, and put a screw eye—same sizeand kind as one mentioned previously—into one. Fig. 25 end of it. Shape the other end of this stick sothat it will fit tightly into the hole already madein the boat, and then round it off so as to makeit slightly thinner at top than at bottom. Theshaft is a straight cylindrical stick thirty-nineinches long, three-eighths of an inch in diameterin the middle, and tapering slightly toward eachend. On one end fasten with plenty of sealing-wax six delicate sticks each seven and three-188
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