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Magic lantern, 272; how to make, 273
Magic wheel, or the phantasmoscope, 286; instructions for making, 287.
“Man-Friday” boats, how to build, 81.
Marcy’s (E. J.) photographic gun, 288.
Marine animals, directions for preserving, 198; the star-fish, ib.; crabs, ib.; lobsters, ib.; sea-urchins, ib.
Masquerade costumes, 293; the “baby,” 297.
Mice, traps to catch, 170.
Mind-reading, game of, 244.
Moles, how to trap, 172; figure four trap, ib.
“Monad,” the author’s dog, 185.
Morse’s insect box, 195.
Musical instruments: home-made corn-stalk fiddle, 130; pumpkin-vine fife, 131; pumpkin-vine flute, ib.; cane fife, 132; voice disguiser, ib.; locust singer, ib.; the hummer, 134.
Muybridge’s photographs of animals in motion, 288.
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Norton, Charles Ledyard, 97.
Newfoundland dogs, 181.
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Owls, how to tame, 149; to stuff, 187.
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Paper pitfalls for mice, 170.
Parachutes attached to balloons, 114; odd shapes for, ib.; fireworks for, 115.
Partridges, snares for, 175.
Paste, how to make, 6.
Phantasmoscope, the, 256.
Photographic paper, 200.
Phunnygraph, the boy’s own, 248.
Plants, aquatic, how to keep, 47; the water-lily, ib.; cat-tails, ib.
Pointers, the training of, 184.
Poodles as trick dogs, 181.
Port folio of fish, how to make, 193.
Potato mill, the, 283.
Prairie chickens, snares for, 176.
Pumpkin-vine fife, 131; flute, ib.
Puppets, how to make, 326; how to work, 330; life instilled into, 371.
Puppet-shows, 254–271; how to make, 254; the stage, ib.; the scenery, 255; scenery for the play “Puss-in-Boots,” ib.; how to work the puppets, 259; stage effects, 260; to make a magical dance, 261; to make a sea scene, ib.; “Puss-in-Boots” for puppet-shows, 263.
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Quail, snares for, 176.
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Rafts, how constructed, 80; the Crusoe raft, 82.
Rats, 170; the origin of rats in America, ib.; the muskrat, ib.; brown rats, ib.; the black rat, ib.; Norway rats, ib.; a simple mode of catching, ib.; the paper pitfall, ib.; the jug trap, 171.
“Reefing,” 105.
Rennie, Professor, quoted, 135.
Robins, how to rear, 142.
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Sail-making for a simple rig, 101; general instructions, 104.
Saw-mill (or buzzer), the, 284.
Scenery for puppet-shows, 255.
Scotch terriers, 181.
Scows, how made, 84; directions for mak ing, 85–87.
Sea-birds, 149; difficult to rear, ib.; stories about, ib.
Sea-urchins caught by the tangle, 79; how to preserve, 198.
Setters, the training of, 184.
Shadow pictures, 199; how to make them, 200.
Shawl-strap, how to make substitute for, 61.
Shepherd dogs, 181.
Sieves for dredging outfits, 78.
“Sinker hitches,” 61.
Skating with wings, 227–233; Mr. Norton’s article, “Every Boy his own Ice-Boat,” 227; Mr. T. F. Hammer’s article, ib.; how to make skating sails: the bat wings, 228; Norton rig, 229; Norwegian rig, 230; Danish rig, 231; English rig, 232; Cape Vincent rig, ib.; a country rig, 233.
Slab shanties, 128.
Sleds, 220; ammunition sled, 209; barrel- stave sled, 220; chair sled, ib.; folding chair sled, 221; the “toboggan,” 222.
Slings, elastic, 159.
Smelt-fishing in winter, 235.
Smoke-rings from the card-box, 289.
Smoke soap-bubbles, 108.
Snakes, apparatus for catching, 152.
Snares, 175; for partridges, 175; set-line snares, 176; the spring snare, 177; snares for fishing, 238; see Traps.
Snowball warfare, 207–215; fort-building, 207; how to make an ammunition sled, 209; to make shields, 210; rules of the game, 211; account of a snow battle, 212; how to bind prisoners without cords, 214; “company rest,” 215.
Snow houses, 216; directions for build ing, ib.
Snow-shoes, how to make, 223.
Snow statuary, 217–219; the snow pig, 216; the Frenchman, 217; the owl, 218.
Soap-bubbles, 107; the best soap for, 108; gas-bubbles, ib.; Uncle Cassius’ smoke-bubbles, ib.; every boy his own bubble-pipe, 107.
Soap-bubble parties, 132.
Spearing fish through the ice, 238; the spearsman’s shanty, 237.
Sparrows, how to rear, 141.
Spiders, mode of preserving, 196.
Splices, how made, 65.
Spring shot-guns, 164; for the hunter, 165.
Squabs, how to rear, 139.
Squirrel traps, 174.
Squirt-guns, 202; how to make, 163.
Star-fish caught by the tangle, 79; how to preserve, 198.
Summer yellowbirds, 143.
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Tangle, its use, 77; how to make a broom- stick tangle, 77; old chain tangle, ib.
Taxidermy for boys, 187–198; the value of a knowledge of taxidermy to the natural ist, 187; Captain Thomas Brown on the art of stuffing birds and mammals, ib.; how to stuff an owl, 188; skinning, ib.; stuffing, 190; arsenical soap, 192; man ner of preserving fish, ib.; preserving insects, 194; Morse insect box, 195; insect groups, 197; how to preserve marine animals, 198.
Telescope, the water, 71.
Tents for camping out, 128.
Thatched houses for camping out, 119; how to build, ib.
Theatricals, costumes for, 293.
Thompson, Wyville, 79.
Throw-sticks, 157; how to make, 157.
Thrush, the brown, 142; wood thrush, ib.
Toboggan, the, 222.
Torches, how to make, 153.
Tourist’s Curiosities, the game of, 241.
Trawl, the, 175.
Trolling-hook, manner of attaching to line, 61.
Trappers, hints to young, 175.
Traps and trappings, 169–179; prepara tions for autumn, 169; rat traps, 170; mole traps, 172; dead-falls, 173; toll- gate trap, 174; hencoop trap, 178; see also Snares.
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Uncle Cassius, 108.
Universe, the, in a card-box, 289.
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Voice disguiser, how to make, 132.
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Walton, Isaak, 71.
Watch-guard, how to make of horse-hair, 59–60.
Water-telescope, 71.
Whip-bows, 156.
Whip-lashes, how to make, 64.
Whirligigs and how to make them, 284; the rainbow whirligig, ib.; a paradoxical whirligig, 286.
Wick-balls for balloons, 113.
Wigs for masquerades, 295.
Winter-fishing, 234.
Wood thrush, the, 142.
Wrens, how to rear, 141.
Wood, Rev. J. G., 155, 181.
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Yankee Pine, the, 93; how to build, 94– 96.
Yellowbirds, 143.
Yoke lines, for steering, 105.
Daniel Carter Beard, The American Boy's Handy Book
