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  • Prairie chickens, snares for, 218.
  • Pumpkin-vine fife, 163;
    • flute, ib.
  • Puppets, how to make, 326;
    • how to work, 330;
    • life instilled into, 371.
  • Puppet-shows, 322–333;
    • how to make, 322;
    • the stage, 323;
    • the scenery, ib.;
    • scenery for the play "Puss-in-Boots," 324;
    • how to work the puppets, 330;
    • stage effects, 331;
    • to make a magical dance, 332;
    • to make a sea scene, 332;
    • "Puss-in-Boots" for puppet-shows, 334.
Q
  • Quail, snares for, 218.
R
  • Rafts, how constructed, 97;
    • the Crusoe raft, 98–101.
  • Rats, 210;
    • the origin of rats in America, ib.;
    • the muskrat, ib.;
    • brown rats, ib.;
    • the black rat, ib.;
    • Norway rats, ib.;
    • a simple mode of catching, ib.;
    • the paper pitfall, 211;
    • the jug trap, 212.
  • "Reefing," 128.
  • Rennie, Professor, quoted, 167.
  • Robins, how to rear, 174.
S
  • Sail-making for a simple rig, 123;
    • general instructions, 128.
  • Saw-mill (or buzzer), the, 360.
  • Scenery for puppet-shows, 323.
  • Scotch terriers, 224.
  • Scows, how made, 1013B directions for making, 101–105.
  • Sea-birds, 184;
    • difficult to rear, ib.;
    • stories about, 185.
  • Sea-urchins caught by the tangle, 94;
    • how to preserve, 247.
  • Setters, the training of, 228.
  • Shadow pictures, 248;
    • how to make them, 249.
  • Shawl-strap, how to make substitute for, 76.
  • Shepherd dogs, 225.
  • Sieves for dredging outfits, 93.
  • "Sinker hitches," 76.
  • Skating with wings, 286–295;
    • Mr. Norton's article, "Every Boy his own Ice-Boat," 287;
    • Mr. T. F. Hammer's article, ib.;
    • how to make skating sails: the bat wings, 288;
    • Norton rig, ib.;
    • Norwegian rig, 290;
    • Danish rig, 291;
    • English rig, 292;
    • Cape Vincent rig, 293;
    • a country rig, 294.
  • Slab shanties, 160.
  • Sleds, 275;
    • ammunition sled, 260;
    • barrel-stave sled, 275;
    • chair sled, ib.;
    • folding chair sled, 276;
    • the "toboggan," 278.
  • Slings, elastic, 199.
  • Smelt-fishing in winter, 297.
  • Smoke-rings from the card-box, 368.
  • Smoke soap-bubbles, 134.
  • Snakes, apparatus for catching, 189.
  • Snares, 217;
    • for partridges, ib.;
    • setline snares, 218;
    • the spring snare, 219;
    • snares for fishing, 301;
    • see Traps.
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