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 426
s keep it under that part of the canbeing punctured. To make the large hole, you will have to put anumber of the small holes close together, and then drive the nailthrough the partitions, cutting them away. The pattern beingcompleted, puncture three holes, close to the top of the can, atequal… … the chain, which is about one yard and a quarter long, intothree equal lengths, separating the pieces by prying open thelinks. Put an end of each piece through the holes made forthem at the top of the can, and fasten themby hooking the open links through the linksof the chain a little farther up,…
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