How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 132
Fi</.60The Butterfly. is gay and attractive,just the thing for the lawn on the Fourth of July. To manufacture one, select a nicefirm barrel-hoop, and nail it securely on one end of a clothes-pole or broom-stick (Fig. 61), sharpen the other end of the pole A Girls Fourth of jFuly. 115 … to a point ; if the hoop seems inclined to split when nailing,first bore holes with a gimlet or burn themwith a red-hot nail or wire for the nails topass through. Cover the barrel-hoop several inchesdeep with straw, lay the straw on and tieit down with string. Prepare a number of pin-wheels…
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