Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400
nother springcame around. Chapter III. WOODEN CHAINS, BUZZ-SAWS, AND FLAP-JACKS. We spoiled or broke many a two-bladed jack-knife in the process of whittling chains, etc., fromblocks of wood. The blocks (for a beginner) wereabout an inch and a half square at each endand a foot long. Pine was the… … the size of the blocks until we were able to usethem when they were as small as an inch or eventhree-quarters of an inch at the end. The firstthing, after trimming the stick so that it would beperfectly square, was to dig out the four corners,so that each end would look like Fig. 5, which ismade…
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