How? or, Spare hours made profitable for boys and girls (1887)
Holbrook, Kennedy · New York, Worthington co. · leaf 270
burnt cotton fall out. Byexercising a little tact your audience may be mystified fora long time, and, in fact, will probably be unable to guessthe secret at all, unless you yourself divulge it to them. A HOME-MADE COMPASS. 265 A HOME-MADE COMPASS. Break a knitting-needle in two pieces, and… … Break the other piece of the knitting-needle into twoequal parts; and having wound one end of each withthread pass the other end into the cork, as seen in theillustration. Next procure a small brass thimble, deeply indented,and balance the cork upon it by dropping melted sealing-wax upon the…
Handicraft · Amusements
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