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tent, 148;

• • selecting a site, 150;
  • the rustic cottage, 148;
  • framework of, 149;
  • thatching, 150;
  • double cottages, 152;
  • furniture for: the bed, 152;
  • rustic chairs, 157;
  • camp tables, 158;
  • fireplace, 154;
  • the barrel oven, 155;
  • the stone stove, 156;
  • how to make a butterknife, etc., 157;
  • hints to amateur campers, 159;
  • provisions, ib.;
  • shelter, ib.;
  • slab shanties, 160;
  • choosing companions, ib.
• Cane fife, 163.
• Caprellas, 94.
• Card box, the, how to make, 368.
• Catamaran, the author's, 96.
• Catbird, how to rear, 174;
  • stories about, ib.
• Cat-rigged boats, 127.
• Cement for aquarium, 57–62.
• Chamber's Journal quoted, 178.
• Clams, how to catch fresh-water, 33.
• Clubs—the Kite Club, 27;
  • the Literary Sketch Club, 310;.
• Cooking in the camp, 155;
  • the barrel oven, ib.;
  • the stone stove, 156;
  • the primitive camp-fire and pothook, 157.
• Corn-stalk fiddle, how to make, 162.
• Costumes for masquerades, 374;
  • white man of the desert, ib.;
  • fourteenth century young man, 375;
  • mediæval hat, 376;
  • the wig, 377;
  • eyebrows, moustache, and beard, ib.;
  • the doublet, ib.;
  • trunks, 378;
  • tights, 379;
  • the baby, ib.;
  • handkerchief hoods, 380.
• Cow blackbird, 169;
  • how to rear, 172.
• Crabs, how to preserve, 247.
• Cross-bow, the elastic, 197.
• Crows, 180;
  • how to rear, 181;
  • the author's crow "Billy," ib.

• "Dandy," or steering sail, 130.
• Deadfalls, objections to, 215;
  • for moles, ib.;
  • for squirrels, 216;
  • for minks or coons, 217.
• Desk, how to make a folding, 110.
• Dogs, 223–231;
  • as companions, 223;
  • the necessity of training, ib.;
  • how to choose a dog, 224;
  • the qualities of a good dog, ib.;
  • trick dogs, ib.;
  • the poodle, ib.;
  • the Scotch terrier, ib.;
  • Newfoundland, ib.;
  • the Shepherd dog, 225;
  • bulldogs, ib.;
  • bull-terriers as a boy's dog, ib.;
  • pointers and setters, 228;
  • pet dogs, 229;
  • their tricks, ib.;
  • the author's dog "Monad," ib.
• Dog-training, 226–229;
  • strict obedience to commands, 226;
  • the use of the whip, 227;
  • patience in training, ib.;
  • teaching the pointer or setter to "stand," ib.;
  • to "retrieve," ib.;
  • "to heel," 228;
  • to "down charge," ib.;
  • to "hi on," ib.;
  • to "quarter," ib.
• Dredges, 86–91;
  • oyster dredges, 87;
  • collector's dredges, ib.;
  • bake-pan dredge, 89;
  • a tin-pail dredge, 91;
  • hints about dredging, ib.
• Drawing from shadows, 248;
  • how to enlarge and reduce by squares,