The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 303
all securelyfastened together. The head and beak are made of bonnetwire or split cane, secured in a notch at the top of the up-right. The strings must be placed as in the Figure. Thecalico covering should be cut fully an inch larger than the frame;this allows something for lapping over the strings… … Fig. 6 represents the Fish Kite, the structure of which isvery simple. It consists of a long lath, by way of straightena cross-lath behind the fins, and a shorter cross-lath behind thetail. Another fancy kite (Fig. 7)—a dog standing on its hindlegs—if done of a good size, and well coloured, has a…
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