Page:The American Boy's Handy Book edition 1.djvu/420

crows, ib.;

• • as decoys, ib.;
  • as pets, 184.
• Hemingray, Mr. Ralph, 245.
• Herring gulls, stories about, 185.
• Hitches, how made: "Blackwall hitch," 75;
  • bale hitch, ib.;
  • sinker hitch, 77;
  • simple hitch, ib.;
  • double hitch, ib.;
  • half hitch, 79;
  • timber hitch, ib.;
  • close hitch, ib.;
  • hammock hitch, 80;
  • diagrams showing hitches, Figs 58, 59;
  • see Knots.
• Holder, Mr. Fred, 85.
• Hummer, the, 166.
• Humming-birds, how to tame, 177;
  • stories about, 178;
  • the nests, ib.;
  • food, 179.
• Hunting, home-made apparatus for, 188;
  • the fish spear, ib.;
  • torches and jack-lights, 190;
  • the boomerang, 190;
  • whip-bow, 194;
  • throw-sticks, 195;
  • bird-bolas, 196;
  • elastic cross-bow, 197;
  • slings, 199;
  • blowguns, 202.

• Ice-boats, 281–285;
  • "Tom Thumb ice-yachts," ib.;
  • see also Skating with Wings, 286.
• Insects, mode of preserving, 242;
  • the mounting-board, ib.;
  • device for pinning insects, 243;
  • Morse's insect box, ib.;
  • the Lawrence breeding-box, 244;
  • spider bottles, 245;
  • to make insect groups, 245.
• Instantaneous photographs adapted to the magic wheel, 366.

• Jack-lights, how to make, 190.

• Kaleidoscope, a home-made, 347.
• Kites how to make man kite, 4;
  • woman kite, 9;
  • boy kite, 11;
  • frog kite, ib.;
  • butterfly kite, 13;
  • king-crab kite, 14;
  • fish kite, 18;
  • star kite, ib.;
  • shield kite, ib.;
  • Chinese kite, 19;
  • Japanese kite, 21;
  • armed kite, 24.
• Kite-time, 1.
• Kite clubs suggested, 27.
• Kite-cutters, how to make, 26.
• Kite warfare, 23;
  • armed kites, 24.
• Knots, the art of tying, 71;
  • secure and insecure knots, 72;
  • definition of a "bend," ib.;
  • a "hitch," ib. the single fisherman's knot, 73;
  • double fisherman's half knot, ib.;
  • Blackwall hitch, 75;
  • bow-line knot, ib.;
  • cask sling, 76;
  • anchor bend, ib.;
  • Flemish knot, ib.;
  • rope knot, ib.;
  • simple knot, ib.;
  • double knot, ib.;
  • "fire-escape sling," 77;
  • boat knot, ib.;
  • "six-fold" knot, ib.;
  • loop knot, ib.;
  • Dutch double knot, 68;
  • running knot, ib.;
  • twist knot, ib.;
  • chain knot for whip-lashes, 78;
  • shroud knot, 79;
  • "lark-head" knot, 80;
  • crossed running knot, ib.;
  • sailor's knot, ib.;
  • weaver's knot, 81;
  • granny knot, ib.;
  • true lover's knot, 82;
  • see diagrams, Figs. 57, 58,59;
  • see also Hitches.