New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All Trades
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Chapters (753)
- The Jack Of All Trades: New Ideas for American Boys
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. TREE-TOP CLUB HOUSES.
- The River Rats
- A Tree-top Retreat,
- The Secret Grape-Vine Route.
- Dangerous Toughs.
- A Club-House in the Tree-tops,
- The Desired Spot
- A Two-Tree House.
- How To Start.
- A Blocks,
- The B Poles
- The Corbel Piece D
- How to Build the Foundation.
- Frame, Walls, and Roof.
- A Rustic House.
- The One-Tree House
- A Three- and Four-Tree Foundation,
- CHAPTER II. HUNTING WITHOUT A GUN.
- How to Capture and Trap Small Live Animals.
- Chipmonks and Woodchucks!
- Camp-Fire Club,
- “Receiving-Cage.”
- Rodents or Gnawers.
- A Smudge
- Flying-Squirrels,
- The Cloth Bag
- Short-Tailed Meadow-Rats
- Utilizing Last Summer’s Birds’-Nests
- White-Footed Mice as Pets.
- Short-tailed Meadow-Rats
- Jumping-mice,
- Woodchucks
- A Box-Trap, or Figure Four,
- Musk-Rats
- CHAPTER III. THE BACK-YARD ZOO.
- Our Reputation among the Brutes.
- This Gory Method of Study
- Worshipped with Canine Devotion,
- Can Appreciate Kindness.
- Lot Twenty-five Feet Wide
- Crow and Dog did the Bossing
- Galvanized Iron Wire-Cloth or Netting
- The Mesh
- A Pair of Foxes
- Each Cage
- To Make a Cage of Galvanized Wire-Netting,
- The Door
- The Doors for the Runway
- A Reptile House
- An Old Piece of Canvas,
- Your Whole Collection
- Silly Superstitions of Hoop-Snake Age.
- Toads: Useful and Harmless.
- Neither Do Toads Make Warts;
- Frog Market.
- Peepers
- The Tree-Toad,
- The Anderson Frog,
- The Frog Has Teeth.
- Lizards.
- The Receiving-Cage.
- The Value of Room.
- CHAPTER IV. A BACK-YARD FISH-POND.
- A Shallow Pond,
- If You Dig a Hole
- Best Form for Such a Tank
- Two Runners.
- To Prevent the Wood from Decay
- In the Shadiest Spot
- When to Stock.
- Handy for the Pets.
- Catch Your Own Fish
- Fresh-Water Clams
- Avoid Salt-Water Sand,
- CHAPTER V. PIGEON-LOFTS AND BANTAM-COOPS.
- Need Shelter
- Chickens,
- A Pigeon-Loft and Bantam-Coop
- Rough Lumber Will Answer.
- Pigeon-Loft Floor
- Shutter Frames.
- Roofing Material.
- Doors.
- The Shutters
- Keep Clean.
- The Hen’s-Nest
- Pigeon-Nests.
- For a Hen-Roost,
- Drinking-Troughs.
- Old Lard-Can,
- Flying-Cage.
- CHAPTER VI. HOW TO MAKE A BACK-YARD AVIARY.
- Bird’s-Nests in Washington’s Coat.
- Bird’s-Nests in Speaking-Horn.
- A Woodpecker’s House.
- The Perforated Door
- The Hinged Door
- Bring the Martins Back
- The Gourds for Bird’s Houses
- Paint the Gourds
- The Wren-House
- Tin-Can Bird-Houses.
- A House of Straw.
- A Barrel for a Martin-House
- Old Knot-holes
- An Available Supply of Moist Clay
- Little Native American
- CHAPTER VII. A BOY’S BACK-YARD WORKSHOP.
- How to make Buildings Plumb and Level.
- The Success of Americans
- A Good Oil-stone,
- A Hatchet
- Use the Best Tools You Can Get.
- A Level,
- A Convenient, Home-Manufactured Plumb
- A Workshop;
- A Foundation,
- How to Build the House.
- Set Your Posts
- Floor the Foundation
- Make Your Ridge-Plank and Rafters
- The “Purlins” and “Collar”
- Examine the Corner-Posts
- The First Stud
- Make Your Door
- The Window,
- Side-Plate
- The Skeleton of Your Shop.
- The Rafters
- Nail a Green Bough to your Roof-tree,
- The Machine-shop,
- Tool-rack
- The Carpenter’s Bench,
- To Protect your Auger-bits
- Care of Shavings.
- A Place for Tool-racks.
- To Keep Small Things.
- A Famous Old Rack,
- CHAPTER VIII. HOW TO BUILD AN UNDERGROUND CLUB-HOUSE.
- American Gnomes
- A Doorway at the Top
- The Trap-Door
- Dimensions of the House.
- A Cross-Section
- The Boys’ Underground Club-House
- New Lumber,
- Pitch to the Roof,
- Framing.
- Passageway.
- There Are No Windows
- The Roof
- Gumption.
- A Ventilator,
- After the Grass Begins to Grow
- Dangerous Caves.
- CHAPTER IX. A BOYS’ CLUB-HOUSE ON THE WATER.
- Crusoe-Clubs,
- Foundation of the Club-House Submerged,
- The Building Material
- A Soft Bottom,
- True Robinson Crusoe Style,
- Weave a Basket
- The Foundation Posts
- Fill the Crib with Stones.
- More Binders,
- The Bottom of the Pond
- Always Level,
- In a Large Building,
- Temporary Diagonal Braces
- An Artificial Island
- CHAPTER X. HOW TO HAVE FUN AT A PICNIC.
- “Joggling-Board.”
- Turnpike Loo.
- The Driver
- Modern Pasteboard Box,
- Pack the Ground Coffee,
- The Rhode Island Clam-Bake,
- Burgoo.
- Clothes-boiler,
- It Takes Time to Properly Cook a Burgoo,
- When the Soup is Cooked
- A Game of Jack-Fagots.
- Old Dan Tucker.
- Circle Around Tucker, Singing
- The Words, They Sing
- Crowding on Tucker
- “Go Stand and Face Your Partner,”
- “Now Let Old Tucker Join Us.”
- Pitch-peg-pin Pitching
- Let All the Girls,
- The First Gentleman Takes
- The Scores
- Lawn Hab-enihan.
- CHAPTER XI. HOW TO BUILD AND HOW TO FURNISH A DANIEL BOONE CABIN.
- Imagination’s Mill
- The Ghosts of the Fireplace
- The Log-House
- Trees of a Smaller Growth,
- The “Skid”
- Locate Your Cabin,
- Build a Foundation
- For Floor-Joists
- The Floor-Supports
- Log-Rolling.
- Door and Window Opening
- A Fireplace
- Any Sort of a Roof
- The Most Essential Piece of Furniture
- The Bunks
- Make a Lincoln Bed.
- When Your House is Crowded,
- Stuff all the Spaces Between the Logs
- Make the Door
- If You Have Money to Spend,
- Oiled Paper for Glass, in Your Windows,
- The Lamps
- The Brownies Will Eat Them.
- The Fireplace
- Wooden Hammers, or Mauls,
- Next Build Your Clay Walls
- For the Chimney
- Stick Chimneys
- Table Takes Up Needed Room,
- Three-Legged Stools.
- General Camp Notes for Old Boys.
- When You Start for Camp
- How the Women Should Dress.
- The Requirements for a Camp.
- From the Stand-point of Health.
- Making the Shack or Shelter.
- The Brush-Covered Lean-to
- In Tents with Roofed Verandas.
- What is Needed for Table and Larder.
- CHAPTER XII. A FLAT-BOATMAN’S HORN.
- Whittling
- Wooden Bugles,
- Revolutionary Soldiers,
- The Old Wooden Horn of Captain Bob Collins.
- The Wabash Horn,
- Among the Flat-boatmen
- For a Mouth-piece,
- CHAPTER XIII. THE AMERICAN BOY’S HOUSE-BOAT.
- A Unique Navy.
- Some of These House-Boats
- Big Square Sails,
- House-Boat as a Fashionable Fad,
- A Flat-Bottomed Scow,
- Building Material.
- The Sides of the House-Boat
- Make Four End-Pieces,
- Now for the Bottom.
- The Bumpers
- The Hull May Now be Painted,
- Twenty-odd Ribs.
- The Cabin of this House-Boat
- Deck-Ribs
- The Boat May Now be Launched
- The Plans Show Three Lockers
- The Keel
- Side-Supports for the Cabin May be Erected.
- Use Ordinary Flooring,
- The Hatch.
- Upper Deck
- The Rafters,
- Box in your Cabin
- This Roof,
- To Contrive a Movable Front
- The Rudder,
- A Pair of Rowlocks,
- Two or more Ash Poles,
- The Locker
- A More Simple Set of Plans.
- Canvas-Cabined House-Boat.
- Information for Old Boys.
- The Cost of House-Boats.
- For People of Limited Means.
- Street-Car Cabins.
- CHAPTER XIV. A BACK-YARD SWITCHBACK.
- “Switchback,”
- The Wheels
- The Flange
- Set the Car-Bed Low.
- Build the Axles
- The Bottom of the Car
- Starting Platform.
- The Track
- A Curved Track
- Erect the Uprights
- The Cross-ties, or Sleepers,
- Ticket-Chopper’s Box.
- CHAPTER XV. HOW TO BUILD A TOBOGGAN-SLIDE IN THE BACK-YARD.
- Slipperies.
- A War-Time Slippery.
- Tropical Toboggan-Slide.
- If Your Back-Yard is Wide
- But if Your Yard is Long and Narrow,
- A Frame,
- The Incline May be Lengthened
- A Toboggan Room.
- “Packing” the Slide, or Chute,
- It is a Wise Plan
- CHAPTER XVI. A HOME-MADE CIRCUS.
- The Bath-tub is a Splendid Receiving-Tank
- As a Lake for His Fleet,
- A Water-wheel,
- The Shaft.
- An Old Cigar-Box
- Make Six Paddles,
- Hanging-Bars.
- If you Make a Frame,
- Figures Which Move.
- A Neat, Round Knot
- CHAPTER XVII. GOOD GAMES WITH TOOTHPICKS AND MATCHES.
- A Toy is a Plaything,
- Wooden Toothpicks
- A Simple Toothpick Example,
- Lift Three Safety-Matches with One Toothpick.
- Explanation.
- A Spring-Bed.
- Artificial Water.
- A Bridge of Matches.
- Two Piers,
- Two Approaches to the Bridge
- Add a Roof
- A Paper Flag,
- A Pioneer Settlement,
- The Chimneys
- CHAPTER XVIII. FUN WITH SCISSORS AND PASTEBOARD AND PAPER.
- How to Make the Sleigh.
- How to Make the Horses.
- To Cut Out the Horse,
- The Tongue, or Pole.
- The Pasteboard Soldiers.
- The Stirrups
- Such an Ideal Soldier
- Make an Army.
- Walk through the Centre of a Visiting Card.
- Grandmother’s Reticule
- “Any Old Thing”
- First American Flag.
- To Cut a Five-pointed Star with One Clip of the Scissors,
- Another Way to Cut a Five-pointed Star,
- A Six-pointed Star can be made with One Cut,
- The Cross,
- Two Cuts, make the Cross into a Square.
- CHAPTER XIX. HOW TO PREPARE AND GIVE A BOYS’ CHALK-TALK.
- We are all Born Artists.
- The Name Chalk-Talk
- Learn by Practise
- Drawing-Board,
- Size of Board.
- The Height of the Easel
- Tack the Paper
- Keep a Sharp Knife
- The Drawings Themselves
- Begin Your Talk
- A Stationary Object
- Emblem of Stability.
- Motion.
- Another Meaning
- Draw All Your Figures as Large as the Paper Will Permit
- This Line Means Repose.
- Something Which Needs Practice,
- Evolution of the Ape
- For Quick Work
- CHAPTER XX. A CHRISTMAS NOVELTY FOR BOYS.
- How to Build and Decorate a Fireplace for Santa Claus.
- The First Start
- Back of the Chimney,
- The Front Frame
- The Remaining Pieces,
- A Simple Task.
- The Covering
- To Line the Inside of the Fireplace.
- Our American St. Nicholas
- Costume for Jolly Old Santa Claus
- The Coat.
- Use a Fur Cap,
- How to Put on the Clothes.
- The Clock,
- CHAPTER XXI. HOW TO MAKE TWO BOYS INTO ONE SANTA CLAUS.
- How the Old Saint’s Legs are Made
- The Wig and Beard
- The Curtains
- The Sleigh
- Good Things in a Bag,
- When All is Ready
- The Signal for Legs,
- Concluded
- CHAPTER XXII. A CIRCUS IN THE ATTIC.
- How to Make the Horses and Other Animals, and How to Make the Costumes.
- The Goat
- Since the Writer’s Circus Days
- The “Arab Steed”
- A Feather-Duster May Do Service as a Tail.
- The Neck-Bones
- The Ribs
- The Frame
- The Reins
- The Moa is the Giant Bird from New Zealand,
- The Manicora
- A Little Ingenuity,
- The Dignified and Self-sufficient Ring-master
- Tight-fitting Knee-breeches,
- A Jersey or a Tight-fitting Undershirt
- A Girl’s Old Turban Hat,
- Knickerbockers,
- Wrong Side Out
- Take an Old Soft Felt Hat
- Pajamas,
- Making-Up
- CHAPTER XXIII. A BOYS’ STAG-PARTY
- Old Boys
- Invitations to a Boys’ Stag-Party,
- Make the Target
- Carpet Tacks
- All the Large Vegetables
- The Cabbage Bonbon Box
- The Big Pie or Pudding
- Knick-knacks and Jokes
- The Ribbons Must be Loosely Knotted
- Don’t Disappoint the Boys.
- The Shooting.
- The Numbers are All Recorded,
- When All the Boys are Properly Decorated,
- Great Trays, Heaped with Raw Garden-Stuff.
- The Regular Spread May Be Served,
- The Great “Fake” Cake
- At a Given Signal
- CHAPTER XXIV. A WILD WEST SHOW IN THE HOUSE.
- Patterns Are Here Given,
- How to Reproduce the Patterns.
- Rule the First Line
- Again Take Your Two-foot
- Next Trace Out the Cowboy,
- After the Puppets Are Cut
- Make a Round Knot
- How it is Done.
- As the Audience
- For a Bridle
- The Indian Horseman
- The Buffalo,
- A Piece of White Muslin,
- CHAPTER XXV. HOW TO HAVE A PANORAMA SHOW.
- A Good Panorama
- The Subject
- With Paste-pot and Shears,
- Select Your Topic
- Colored Figures,
- The Works of the Panorama,
- Build a Narrow Box,
- Cut Some Dark Red Canton Flannel
- The Stage
- Footlights.
- How the Panorama Box
- Top Board
- Make the Rollers of Broomsticks,
- A Crank or Windlass
- Big Show-Bills,
- A Square Piece of Tin
- Turn Out All the Lights
- FOOTNOTES:
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