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ball, 140;

• • sending up the balloons, 141;
  • fireworks for, 144;
  • see Parachutes.
• Barnacles for aquariums, 67.
• Bends and hitches;
  • see Knots.
• Bird-bolas, 196;
  • for hunting, 197;
  • for target practice, ib.
• Birds' eggs, how to collect and preserve, 167;
  • the right and wrong of egg-collecting, ib.;
  • the egg-drill and blow-pipe, 168;
  • blown eggs, ib.;
  • drying, ib.;
  • the egg cabinet, 169;
  • cataloguing, ib.
• Birds, how to stuff;
  • see Taxidermy.
• Bird-nesting, 167;
  • wanton destruction of nests, ib.;
  • the yellowbird's two-story nest, 169;
  • meadow wren's nest, 170;
  • preserving nests, ib.
• Bird singers, 161;
  • the block singer, ib.
• Birds, wild, how to rear, 171–187;
  • learn habits when wild, ib.;
  • food, ib.;
  • squabs, 172;
  • cow blackbird, ib.;
  • wrens, sparrows, and finches, 173;
  • bobolinks, ib.;
  • catbirds, 174;
  • robins, ib.;
  • thrushes, 175;
  • bluebirds, 176;
  • summer yellowbird, ib.;
  • bluejay, 177;
  • humming-birds, ib.;
  • crows, 180;
  • hawks, 181;
  • owls, 184;
  • sea birds, ib.;
  • strange domestic fowls, 186.
• Blackwall hitch, the, 75.
• Blow-guns used by the Dyaks of Borneo, 200;
  • how to make blowguns, 201;
  • Indian blow-guns, 202.
• Blow-pipes, 168.
• Bluebirds, how to rear, 176;
  • as pets, ib.
• Bluejays, how to rear, 177.
• Boats, home-made, 95–117;
  • the author's experiences, 96;
  • the catamaran, 96;
  • Man-Friday, 97;
  • the Crusoe raft, 97;
  • the scow, 101;
  • flat-boats, 105;
  • the "Yankee Pine," 113;
  • see also Ice-Boats.
• Boat-rigging, 121;
  • the "fore-and-aft" rig, ib.;
  • a simple rig, 122;
  • the sails, 123;
  • the spars, ib.;
  • leg-of-mutton rig, 124;
  • for the canoeist, ib.;
  • its advantages, 125;
  • the "latteen" rig, 126;
  • the cat rig, 127;
  • its general use, 127;
  • "jibing," 127;
  • sailmaking, 128;
  • hints to beginners, ib.
• Boat-sailing, 118–131;
  • first principles, 119;
  • experiments, 120–129;
  • sailing before the wind, 120;
  • to windward, 121;
  • tacking, ib.;
  • going about, 122;
  • hints for beginners, 128;
  • reefing, 129;
  • the lee-board, ib.;
  • the "Dandy," 130;
  • to make a landing, 130.
• Bobolinks, how to rear, 173.
• Boomerangs, 190;
  • how to make, 191;
  • to throw a boomerang, 192;
  • miniature boomerangs, 193.
• Boys' books, experience with, 158.
• Bowline knot, 75.
• Breeding-box for insects, 244.
• Bric-à-brac, the game of, 305.
• Brown, Captain Thomas, 232.
• Bulldogs, 225;
  • bull-terriers, ib.
• Butterflies, how to preserve, 243.

• Camera obscura, home-made, 253.
• Camping out, 148–160;
  • without a