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250;

• • how to make camera for drawing, 252.

• Eggs, collecting;
  • see Birds' Eggs.
• Elder guns and pistols, 203;
  • how to make, 204.
• Electricity, simple experiments with, 371;
  • electrified paper puppets, ib.
• Emerton's "Life on the Sea Shore," 93.

• Finches, how to rear, 173.
• Fireworks for balloons, 144.
• Fish, a new manner of preserving, 239.
• Fishermen, knots for, 74.
• Fishing, novel modes of: the bell-pole apparatus, 28;
  • "jugging for cats," 29;
  • the dancing fisherman, 31;
  • toy-boat fishing, 32;
  • the "wooden otter," 33;
  • contrivance for catching frogs, eels, etc., 35.
• Fish-spearing, 188;
  • how to make a fish-spear, ib.
• Fishing-tackle suggestions for making the rod, 36;
  • the reel, 38;
  • the net, 39;
  • a home-made minnow bucket, 42;
  • the fish car, 112;
  • fish bait, 30, 42.
• Fishing through the ice, 296;
  • automatic fishing-tackle, 297;
  • smelt-fishing and smelt fishers' houses, ib.;
  • "umbrella smelt tackle," 299;
  • spearing shanty, 300;
  • snaring fish, 301;
  • spearing fish, 302;
  • how to build a fishing-house, 303.
• Flat-boats, 105;
  • how to build, 106;
  • the cabin, 107;
  • its arrangement, 107–110;
  • their advantages, 111.
• Fortune-teller's box, the, 348;
  • how made, 349;
  • its operation, 350.
• Fourth of July balloons, 136.
• Furniture for camping out, 152;
  • the bed, ib.;
  • rustic chairs, 157;
  • camp table, 153.

• Games for in-doors, 305;
  • bric-à-brac, or the tourist's curiosities, ib.;
  • mind-reading, 309.
• Gas, how to light with the finger, 373.
• Gas soap-bubbles, 133.
• Gibson, Mr. Lang, 170.
• Gibson, W. Hamilton, 200.
• Guns, how to make them: blow-guns, 200;
  • squirt-guns, 202;
  • elder guns, 203;
  • spring shot-guns, 205.

• Hammer (T. F.), article on winged skaters by, 287.
• Hammock hitches, 80.
• Handkerchief tricks, 354;
  • the handkerchief doll, ib.;
  • the bather, 356;
  • the orator, 357;
  • handkerchief hood, 380.
• Hawks, 182;
  • how to tame, ib.;
  • strap for leg, ib.;
  • food, 183;
  • as scare-