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How to Make the Tom Thumb Ice-Boat.
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188, a wooden handle can be substituted for the tiller-ropes (Fig. 190).

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Fig. 188.Top View of Ice-Boat.

The rudder is made of a skate; the latter is fastened by the screw at the heel and then strapped on a board nailed on to a club, shaped like a potato-masher; the small part of the club runs through a hole in the stern of the centre-board. Image missingFig. 189.Mast Bench. A forked stick can be used for a tiller and must be fastened on to the rudder-post by running a pin or large wire through holes bored for the purpose in the rudder-post and the prongs of the forked stick. If the top of the rudder-post be squared, a tiller may be made of a stick with a square hole to fit over the end of the rudder-post, as shown in the illustration at the end of this chapter.

Perhaps some of my readers will invent more ingenious and simple steering apparatus than the ones given here; if

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