How? or, Spare hours made profitable for boys and girls (1887)
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ped ball. Prepare this ball during your leisure moments in thelong winter evenings; and it will then be ready for thefirst game, when the bright spring sunshine reminds youof summer sports once more. AMUSING EXPERIMENT WITH TOOTHPICKS. 17 AMUSING EXPERIMENT WITH TOOTH-PICKS. Take five tooth-picks,… … two successively, first 5, then c. Now lay the figure uponany flat surface, letting the end c extend a short distancebeyond the edge. If you touch a lighted match to c, in amoment each stick will leap into the air as if suddenlyendowed with life and animation, quite unusual in suchinert objects. 18…
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