The boy's own book of indoor games and recreations : a popular encyclopædia for boys (1890)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910, Hutchison, George Andrew, 1841-1913 · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 117
^ door was thrownopen to the guests, and the Christmas ship, glowing with her illuminations andcrammed full of presents, stood before them. Such was her capacity, that, althoughthere were some thirty or forty young people ready and eager to plunder her, it wasnot until they had made three… … The first operation is to make the frame or stand. This is shown in Fig. 2 andFig. 3, as well as in the sketch of the ship complete. It is marked h h h h inFig. 3. The size of the stand will of course entirely depend on the size you intendmaking the ship, but it should be in about the same…
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