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 400
ide of the staff,10 feet distant, and one for the stay in front. Then obtain some stout seizingstuff, such as cod-line, and splice it into the eye of the spike; then pass itthrough the thimble and then through the eye again, and so on, pulling it as tightas you can every time. At sea the necessary… … flG4a a a. Shrouds. b. Stay. CHAPTER XLIV.—HOW TO MAKE A POCKET COMPASS AND TIMEPIECE. By F. Chasemore. For this, get a wooden tooth-powder box, plain—that is, without projecting rims—take off the lid, and smooth it all over. Next make the compass-card. Cut this,circular, about a quarter of an inch…
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