TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beard,Daniel Carter
AU  - Williams,Roy L.
TI  - The American boys handy book: what to do and how to do it 
SN  - 1493036807
PY  - 2018///
KW  - Boys
KW  - Recreation
KW  - United States
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Amusements
KW  - Handicraft for boys
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Sports
KW  - Outdoor recreation
N1  - Includes index; SPRINT. Kite time ; War kites ; Novel modes of fishing ; Home-made fishing tackle ; How to stock, make, and keep a fresh-water aquarium ; How to keep aquatic plants in the house or flower-garden ; How to stock and keep a marine aquarium ; How to collect for marine aquarium -- SUMMER. Knots, bends, and hitches ; The water-telescope ; Dredge, tangle, and trawl fishing ; Home-made boats ; How to rig and sail small boats ; Novelties in soap-bubbles ; Fourth of July balloons, with new and novel attachments ; How to camp out without a tent ; Bird singers, etc. ; Bird nesting ; How to rear wild birds ; How to rear wild birds continued ; Home-made hunting apparatus, etc. ;  How to make blow-guns, elder guns, etc. -- AUTUMN. Traps and trappings ; Dogs ; Practical taxidermy for boys ; Every boy a decorative artist -- WINTER. Snowball warfare ; Snow-houses and statuary ; Sleds, chair-sleighs, and snow-shoes ; How to make the Tom Thumb ice-boat and larger craft ; The winged skaters, and how to make the wings ; Winter fishing, spearing and snaring, fisherman's movable shanties, etc. -- In-door amusements -- The boy's own phunnygraph -- How to make puppets and a puppet-show -- Puss-in-boots dramatized and adapted for a puppet-show -- How to make a magic lantern, a kaleidoscope, a fortune-teller's box, etc. -- How to make the dancing fairies, the bather, and the orator -- How to make various and divers [sic] whirligigs -- The universe in a card-box -- Life instilled into paper puppets, and matches made of human fingers -- Home-made masquerade and theatrical costumes
N2  - An 1890 manual of pastimes which includes instructions for making kites, fishing poles, a blow gun, boats, and theatrical costumes, and for raising dogs, stuffing animals, stocking an aquarium, and camping; Offers a variety of sports, amusements, and games designed to appeal to boys
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