New ideas for American boys; the Jack of all trades (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 247
Games with Toothpicks and Matches. 205 the two crossed picks and over the free end of the centre toothpick, you will have Fig. 170. What is Fig. 170? Well, it is almost anything you wish : Fig. 168. Fig. 169. it is a gate, a section of a fence, or a spring-bed. Fig. 171 shows the spring-bed, and to… … Fig. 170. Fig. 171. match, then stand back and watch the flame eat its way to the first joint. When this joint is reached the spring is freed, and the bed flies to pieces, which proves that it is really a spring-bed.
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