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 344
ick must vary accordingto the size of the net you areabout to make. A mesh stickwill make a mesh twice its ownsize. Thus a stick half an inchsquare will make a one-inch mesh. Any youth at all handy witha knife can manufacture thesearticles for himself, and there onlyremains to obtain the… … Fig. I.A, The needle. B, The mesh stick. C, The twine. the nearest string shop, and pick out what is suitable in size and strength as well asm price. When the material is purchased—white line, seine twine, or common twine,whatever it may be—if it is not already in a ball, wind it into one. Then…
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