New ideas for American boys; the Jack of all trades (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 271
A Boys Chalk -Talk. 229 AB conveys the idea of A Stationary Object — a telegraph pole, a tree, a church steeple, etc. If there is one idea which it does not suggest, that idea is motion. Draw two lines diagonally down from A to the base line (Fig. 221), and point out that this represents a pyramid,… … Fig. 243. joining them at the top (Fig. 222), show that these lines still represent a stationary object — a house. At this point you may work in any comic story of houses in a Western tornado, which, under a stress of weather are not stationary, but seem inclined to change their base and even to…
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