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 39
at once filled with a great desire to make otherpictures. Then we found we had no soldiers, or structed a wire skeleton of fine, soft stovepipewire, and bent the arms and legs into the properpositions. That helped to give the correct action,and held the clay together. Very few tools were necessary.… … ANOTHER SCENE FROM THE BATTLE OF BAWLED HILL. (A pile of sand about two feet high, fences made of matches and small sticks, iron toys, and little lead soldiers. The house is a toothpick box.) similar figures, of the proper size for the fore-ground and middle distance, and to buy them allwould be…
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