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“Every boy who is handy with tools of any sort will enjoy this book.”
—Youth’s Companion.
“This book is a capital one to give any boy for a present at Christmas, on a birthday, or indeed at any time.”—The Outlook.
“Full of new ideas for active boys who like to use tools and see interesting things growing under their hands.”—N. Y. Tribune.
“A perfect treasure-house of things that delight the soul of a boy and keep him happy and busy.”—The Interior.
CONTENTS
Part I. Fair Weather Ideas
Tree-Top Club-Houses—How to Capture and Trap Small Live Animals—The Back-Yard Zoo—A Back-Yard Fish-Pond—Pigeon and Bantam Coops—How to Make a Back-Yard Aviary—A Boy’s Back-Yard Workshop—How to Build an Underground Club-House—A Boys’ Club-House on the Water—How to Have Fun on a Picnic—How to Build and How to Furnish a Daniel Boone Cabin—Flat Boatman’s House—The American Boy’s House Boat—Back-Yard Switchback—How to Build a Toboggan Slide in the Back-Yard.
Part II. Rainy Weather Ideas
A Home-Made Circus—Good Games with Toothpicks and Matches—Fun with Scissors and Pasteboard and Paper—How to Prepare and Give a Boys’ Chalk Talk—A Christmas Novelty for Boys—How to Make Two Boys into One Santa Claus—A Circus in the Attic—A Boys’ Stag Party—A Wild West Show in the House—How to Have a Panorama Show.
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CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers
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