The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 126
self, but it led to somethingremarkable; for, one day, when the patient wasrather fretful and listless, his father, to amusehim, began with a pair of scissors to cut out fig-ures from paper—a horse, a dog, a cow. The lit-tle lad was instantly interested, and his delightwas doubled when he found… … vided with a good-sizedpair of round-pointedshears. These he wore hung by a string aroundhis neck, and everywhere he went, they went too.The little fingers were constantly busy turningout silhouettes of everything that attracted thechilds fancy, until he became as skilful with hisodd tool as many…
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