How? or, Spare hours made profitable for boys and girls (1887)
Holbrook, Kennedy · New York, Worthington co. · leaf 245
the cabin floor changed the cur-rent of our thoughts, and we saw for the first time thelittle device I am about to describe. This bit of wood. 240 CAPTAIN 8:8 PEG PUZZLE. which he had picked up was a thin strip of a cigar-boxcover. In one end was a circular hole about an inch indiameter, in the… … Fig. When Captain S. saw the piece of wood he challengedus each to make one peg which should exactly fit allthree holes. But it cant be done, Captain, we bothexclaimed at once ; the holes that have corners couldntbe fitted with a round peg, and the peg large enough forthe square would be too large…
Handicraft · Amusements
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