What to do and how to do it : the American boy's handy book / by D. C. Beard. (1882)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 186
g bird. A thin strip of writing-paper may be sub- stituted for the blade of grass where the latter is hard to procure. The Corn-stalk Fiddle. The writing of the above title has sent me back to my boy- hood with one great leap over the intervening years. In imag- ination I am again a barefooted… … FiG.'iig. — Cornstalk Fiddle. Opens, like any man's knife, with a snap ! If I were this moment placed in a particular barn-yard in company with my reader, I could take him to the exact spot where a pile of corn-stalks used always to be heaped up in the corner of the fence. Let us suppose we are…
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