New ideas for American boys; the Jack of all trades (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 235
A Home-made Circus. 193 An Old Cigar-Box will not only furnish you with excellent wood for the pad- dles of your wheels (Fig. 142), but, if carefully taken apart, it will also furnish you with just the right sort of nails with which to fasten your paddles to the shaft. Fig. 142. Make Six Paddles,… … Fig. 143. another paddle in place ; continue this work until you have the paddle-wheel shown in Fig. 143. On to one or both ends of the shaft you may now slip wooden spools, pushing them up the stick until they fit tightly, and leave a projecting end of the shaft sticking out of the end of the…
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