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the diagrams (Fig. 163). If you will look at the top diagram you will see that the horse's head cuts off one corner of the upper left hand corner square; with your pencil make a line cutting off the same part of the corresponding large square; curve the line like the copy. By again referring to the horse Image missingFig. 163.Enlargement by Squares. picture you will notice that the line of the neck continued strikes exactly at the intersection of the lines 1 and 2; draw it so. The next point the line touches just above is the intersection of the lines 2 and 3; from this point the line of the back runs almost straight to the point on the tail at the intersection of the lines 2 and 6; thus, by finding and connecting the points of intersection you may reproduce the whole horse as illustrated by the diagram. In a similar manner a landscape, figure piece or a plan can be accurately enlarged by a boy who may have little or no talent for drawing, but who for some purpose wishes to reproduce a picture or plan. By making the squares on your drawing-paper exactly the same size as those upon the picture, you can draw a fac-simile of the picture, and by making the squares smaller you may reduce a picture. Remember these hints, for when I tell you how to make a puppet show, although a pattern for each puppet is drawn, there is not space in a book of this size to make all