What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . A Kite pieces, and then it can be lengthened or shortened at instance, if the kite plunges in the air and will not keepsteady, the tail is not long enough; but if it will go up only alittle way, the tail is probably too long. Be sure to haveplenty of string, carefully wound, so that there will be no 294 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW ?. To FEEL A KITE PULLIXG AT YOUR HANDS—THIS IS REAL JOY INDOOR OCCUPATIONS 295 hitches in paying it out. When starting a kite you need thehelp of some one who will stand about thirty yards away,holding the k
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . A Kite pieces, and then it can be lengthened or shortened at instance, if the kite plunges in the air and will not keepsteady, the tail is not long enough; but if it will go up only alittle way, the tail is probably too long. Be sure to haveplenty of string, carefully wound, so that there will be no 294 WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW ?. To FEEL A KITE PULLIXG AT YOUR HANDS—THIS IS REAL JOY INDOOR OCCUPATIONS 295 hitches in paying it out. When starting a kite you need thehelp of some one who will stand about thirty yards away,holding the kite against the wind, and throw it straight upwhen you have the line tight and give the signal. If it doesnot rise it may be well for you to run a few yards against thewind. At first you must not pay out line very rapidly, butwhen the kite is flying steadily you may give it, also steadily,all the string it wants. Kite MessengersA messenger is a piece of cardboard or paper with agood-sized hole in it, which you slip over the string when thekite is steady, and which is carried right up to the kite by thewind. ^ A Simple Toy Boat The following directions, with exact measurements, applyto one of the simplest home-made sailing-boats. Take a pieceof soft straight-grained pine, which any carpenter or builderwill let you have, one foot long, four inches wide, and twoinches deep. On the top
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