By Daniel "Dan" Carter Beard
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SPRING
CHAPTER I.
KITE TIME
Man Kite; The Woman Kite; A Boy Kite; Frog Kite; The Butterfly Kite; The King Crab Kite; Fish Kite; The Turtle Kite; The Shield Kite; A Star Kite; The Chinese Dragon Kite; The Japanese Square Kite; The Moving Star.
CHAPTER II.
WAR KITES
Unarmed War Kite; Armed Kites; Armed Kite Fighting; How to Make the Knives; How to Make Cutters; Kite Clubs.
CHAPTER III.
NOVEL MODES OF FISHING
The Bell Pole; Jugging for Cats; The Dancing Fisherman; Toy Boats for Fishing; The Wooden Otter; Fishing for Fresh Water Clams.
CHAPTER IV.
HOME-MADE FISHING TACKLE
The Rod; Tin and Spool Reel; The Forked Stick Reel; Home-Made Nets; A Home-Made Minnow Bucket; Inhabitants of the Water.
CHAPTER V.
HOW TO STOCK; MAKE; AND KEEP A FRESH-WATER AQUARIUM
Stocking; The Frog; Gold-Fish versus Bass; Aquarium Cement;
CHAPTER VI.
HOW TO KEEP AQUATIC PLANTS IN THE HOUSE OR FLOWER-GARDEN
Water-Lily; Cat-Tails.
CHAPTER VII.
HOW TO STOCK AND KEEP A MARINE AQUARIUM
Cement for Marine Aquaria.
CHAPTER VIII.
HOW TO COLLECT FOR MARINE AQUARIUM
SUMMER.
CHAPTER IX.
KNOTS; BENDS; AND HITCHES
How to Make a-Horse-Hair Watch-Guard; Miscellaneous; Whip--Lashes; Splices; Timber-Hitches; etc.
CHAPTER X.
THE WATER-TELESCOPE
How to Make a Wooden Water-Telescope; A Tin Water-Telescope.
CHAPTER XI.
DREDGE, TANGLE, AND TRAWL FISHING
A New Sport; The Tangle; The Trawl; How to Make a Bake-Pan Dredge; A Tin-Pail Dredge; How to Make a Broomstick Tangle; The Old Chain Tangle; Hints and Suggestions to Amateurs; The Use of the Tangle.
CHAPTER XII.
HOME-MADE BOATS
Birth of the "Man-Friday" Catamaran; The Crusoe Raft; The Scow; A Floating Camp, or the Boy's Own Flat-Boat; The Yankee Pine.
CHAPTER XIII.
HOW TO RIG AND SAIL SMALL BOATS
Simplest Rig Possible; Leg-of-Mutton Rig; The Latteen Rig; The Cat Rig; How to Make a Sail; Hints to Beginners.
CHAPTER XIV.
NOVELTIES IN SOAP-BUBBLES
Every Boy his own Bubble-Pipe.
CHAPTER XV.
FOURTH OF JULY BALLOONS; WITH NEW AND NOVEL ATTACHMENTS
CHAPTER XVI.
HOW TO CAMP OUT WITHOUT A TENT
Hints to Amateur Campers; Provisions; Shelter; Choosing Companions.
CHAPTER XVII.
BIRD SINGERS, ETC
The Block Bird Singer; The Corn-Stalk Fiddle; The Pumpkin-vine Flute; A Pumpkin-vine Flute; Cane Fife; The Voice Disguiser; The Locust Singer; The Hummer;
CHAPTER XVIII.
BIRD NESTING
How to Collect and Preserve Eggs; Birds' Nests; Preserving Nests.
CHAPTER XIX.
HOW TO REAR WILD BIRDS
Robins, Thrushes, Wrens, and other Small Birds; Squabs; The Cow Blackbird; Wrens, Sparrows, and Finches; The Bobolink; The Catbird; Robins; The Brown Thrush, or Thrasher; The Wood Thrush; Bluebirds; The Summer Yellowbird; The Blue Jay; Humming-Bird.
CHAPTER XX.
HOW TO REAR WILD BIRDS--Continued.
The Crow, Hawk, and other Large Birds; The Hawk; The Hawk as a Scare-Crow; The Hawk as a Decoy; Owls; Sea Birds; Strange Domestic Fowls.
CHAPTER XXI.
HOME-MADE HUNTING APPARATUS; ETC.
Spearing Fish; How to Make a Fish Spear; How to Make the Torches and Jack-Lights; How to Make the Boomerang; To Throw a Boomerang; The Miniature Boomerang; The Whip-Bow; Throw Sticks; The Bird Bolas; The Elastic Cross-Bow.
CHAPTER XXII.
HOW TO MAKE BLOW-GUNS, ELDER GUNS, ETC.
To Make a Blow-Gun; Squirt-Guns; Elder Guns and Pistols; The Spring Shot-Gun.
AUTUMN
CHAPTER XXIII.
TRAPS AND TRAPPINGS.
Rats; The Paper Pitfall; Jug Trap; The Mole and How to Trap Him; The Figure Four; Mole Trap; The Tollgate Trap; The Partridge Snare; Set-Line Snares; The Spring Snare; Hen-Coop Trap.
CHAPTER XXlV.
DOGS
How to Choose a Dog; How to Train Dogs; To Teach a Dog to Retrieve; Pointers and Setters; Pet Dogs.
CHAPTER XXV.
PRACTICAL TAXIDERMY FOR BOYS
Skinning; Stuffing; A New Manner of Preserving Fish; Design for Sketching Aquarium; Preserving Insects; Morse Insect Box; The Lawrence Breeding Box; Spiders; How to Make Beautiful or Comical Groups and Designs of Insects; Marine Animals.
CHAPTER XXVI.
EVERY BOY A DECORATIVE ARTIST
Shadow Pictures; Photographic Paper; How to Enlarge or Reduce a Picture, etc.; How to Enlarge or Reduce by Squares; How to Make a Camera for Drawing;
WINTER
CHAPTER XXVII.
SNOWBALL WARFARE
How to Build Snow Forts; How to Make Shields and Ammunition Sleds; How to Build the Fort; How to Make an Ammunition Sled; How to Make the Shield; Rules of the Game; A Snow Battle; How to Bind a Prisoner without a Cord; Company Rest.
CHAPTER XXVII.
SNOW-HOUSES AND STATUARY
Snow Statuary.
CHAPTER XXIX.
SLEDS, CHAIR-SLEIGHS, AND SNOW-SHOES
A Chair-Sleigh; Folding Chair-Sleigh; The Toboggan; Snow-Shoes or Skates.
CHAPTER XXX.
HOW TO MAKE THE TOM THUMB ICE-BOAT AND LARGER CRAFT
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE WINGED SKATERS; AND HOW TO MAKE THE WINGS
Bat Wings; The Norton Rig; The Norwegian Rig; The Danish Rig; The English Rig; The Cape Vincent Rig; A Country Rig.
CHAPTER XXXII.
WINTER FISHING, SPEARING, AND SNARING; FISHERMAN'S MOVABLE SHANTIES, ETC.
Smelt Fishing and the Smelt Fisher's House; The Spears-man's Shanty; Snaring Fish; Spearing Fish; How to Build a Fishing House.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
INDOOR AMUSEMENTS
Bric-a-Brac, or the Tourist's Curiosities, Mind-Reading; Literary Sketch Club.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE BOY'S OWN PHUNNYGRAPH
CHAPTER XXXV.
HOW TO MAKE PUPPETS AND A PUPPET-SHOW
How to Make the Stage; The Scenery; The Old Mill; Puss; Corsando and the Donkey; The Royal Coach; Carabas; How to Work the Puppets; Stage Effects; How to Make a Magical Dance; How to Make a Sea Scene.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
PUSS-IN-BOOTS, DRAMATIZED AND ADAPTED FOR A PUPPET -SHOW
Act I, Scene I: Landscape with Tree, Bridge, and Mill at one side; Scene II: Woods; Act II, Scene I: King's Palace; Scene II: High-road; Act III, Scene I: Interior of Ogre's Castle.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC LANTERN: A KALEIDOSCOPE; A FORTUNE-TELLER'S BOW, ETC.
A Home-Made Kaleidoscope; The Fortune-Teller's Box; The Magic Cask; How the Barrel is Made.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
HOW TO MAKE THE DANCING FAIRIES, THE BATHER, AND THE ORATOR.
How to Make a Handkerchief Doll; The Bather; The Orator.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
HOW TO MAKE VARIOUS AND DIVERSE WHIRLIGIGS
Potato Mill; A Saw-Mill; The Rainbow Whirligig; A Paradoxical Whirligig; The Phantasmoscope, or Magic Wheel.
CHAPTER XL.
THE UNIVERSE IN A CARD-BOX
CHAPTER XLI.
LIFE INSTILLED INTO PAPER PUPPETS, AND MATCHES MADE OF HUMAN FINGERS
To Light the Gas with your Finger.
CHAPTER XLII.
HOME-MADE MASQUERADE AND THEATRICAL COSTUMES
The White Man of the Desert; The Fourteenth Century Young Man; The Medieval Hat; The Wig; Eyebrows, Moustache, and Beard; The Doublet; Trunks; Tights; To Dress; The Baby; How to Make a Handkerchief Hood.
See Also:
The American Boy's Handy Book:
What to Do and How to Do It
