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 133
eels and tie them with a slip knot ii6 Summer. (Fig. 63), in order that it may easily fly open. Place the cagethus formed in the centre of a square piece of tissue-paper. Now cut strips of different colored tissue-paper, four incheslong, and twist each piece at one end. Put these in the centre of… … makes a bomb somewhat re-sembling a common torpedoenlarged to many times itsoriginal size. Pass the string through a ^* screw-eye which has been screwed in the end of a flag-pole orbroomstick, and place the pole out of the window. Then dropthe end of the string down to the lawn below. Fasten one…
