Home mission handicraft; ideas for work and play in mission bands and junior societies (1908)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, joint author · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 25
. This bath of wax should render your ship perfectly water-tight, but test the httle craft on water to make sure that it doesnot leak. Cut the Sails of very light-weight writing-paper, the top edge straight, sideedges slanting, and bottom edge curved inward. Make thegreatest height of the foresail… … in the middle at the bottom. En-large the holes slightly by insertingthe point of a lead pencil andtwisting the pencil gently around(Fig. 599). Remember that allholes for the masts to run throughmust be made rather small, to pre-vent the sails from sliding too fardown the masts. Bend the topand…
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