The Jack of All Trades: New Ideas for American Boys (Classic Reprint)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Daniel Carter Beard

Crafts & Hobbies

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The American Boys Handy Book

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Franklin Classics Trade Press

The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Get outdoors! There’s so much to do and discover with this truly Handy Book as a guide. Written for children in 1882, and valuable for kids or adults today, the author suggests projects, crafts, plans, games, and schemes for camping trips, hikes, or the backyard. It contains plans for 16 kinds of kites and hot-air balloons and fishing tackle, how to make and stock an aquarium, to construct a water telescope and how to camp out without a tent. Or in a hut made from pine boughs. How to build 10 kinds of boats, including a flatboat with a covered cabin. Iceboats, too. Squirt guns with astonishing range and authority. One-person canoes. Bird calls. Daniel Carter Beard, a founder of the scouting movement in America, helped preserve invaluable folkways that can instill self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of nature―all while having a world of fun.

The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition

David R. Godine, Publisher

The American boys' book of signs, signals and symbols

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The New York Public Library

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the same wood. The surface is of equal thickness from end to end." Among the South American Indians the sumpitan is represented by the long delicate "pucuna," or the heavy and unwieldy "zarabatana." All savages use poisoned arrows in their blow-guns instead of harmless pellets of clay or putty. Taking a few hints from the primitive warriors and hunters of Borneo and South America, any boy, with a little care and small expense, can construct for himself a blow-gun which will be handy to carry around and will shoot with great accuracy. Mr. W. Hamilton Gibson, the well-known artist, has acquired such skill with the blowgun that he seldom misses the mark, and often brings home birds and other creatures brought down by a clay pellet blown from a glass sumpitan. For twenty-five cents a glass tube, three or four feet long, can be purchased. With these tubes can be made the best of blowguns, but they are objectionable on account of being liable to break at any moment from some accidental blow or jar. With some flannel or woollen cloth and an old piece of cane fishing-pole a cover and a case can be made to enclose the glass and prevent its being broken by anything short of a severe knock or fall. To Make a Blow-Gun. Select a good straight piece of glass tube about three or four feet long. To discover whether the glass tube is straight or not, hold it horizontally level with the eye and look through it, and any deviation will be quickly seen. Wrap the tube with strips of flannel or woollen cloth, as illustrated by Fig. 131, A. The A. rii fo--D cJfe Fig. 131.--The Hunter's Blow-Gun. cloth will make a soft covering or cushion for the outside of the glass and render it less liable to break. With a red-hot iron rod, or some similar instrument,...

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Synopsis First published in 1882 this timeless bestseller by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America is chock-full of cool projects, games and crafts for every season of the year.

The Original Boy's Handy Book

Tess Press/Black Dog & Leventh

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The Jack of All Trades: New Ideas for American Boys (Classic Reprint)

The American Boys Handy Book

The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft

The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft

The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It, Centennial Edition

The American boys' book of signs, signals and symbols

The American Boys Handy Book

The Original Boy's Handy Book