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  • Snowball warfare, 257–268;
    • fort-building, 258;
    • how to make an ammunition sled, 260;
    • to make shields, 261;
    • rules of the game, 262;
    • account of a snow battle, 264;
    • how to bind prisoners without cords, 267;
    • "company rest," ib.
  • Snow houses, 269;
    • directions for building, 270.
  • Snow-shoes, how to make, 279.
  • Snow statuary, 271–274;
    • the snow pig, 272;
    • the Frenchman, 273;
    • the owl, ib.
  • Soap-bubbles, 132;
    • the best soap for, 133 gas-bubbles, ib.;
    • Uncle Cassius' smoke-bubbles, 134;
    • every boy his own bubble-pipe, 135.
  • Soap-bubble parties, 132.
  • Spearing fish through the ice, 302;
    • the spearsman's shanty, 300.
  • Sparrows, how to rear, 173.
  • Spiders, mode of preserving, 245.
  • Splices, how made, 78.
  • Spring shot-guns, 205;
    • for the hunter, 206.
  • Squabs, how to rear, 172.
  • Squirrel traps, 216.
  • Squirt-guns, 202;
    • how to make, 203.
  • Star-fish caught by the tangle, 94;
    • how to preserve, 246.
  • Summer yellowbirds, 176.
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  • Tangle, its use, 88–93;
    • how to make a broomstick tangle, 91;
    • old chain tangle, 91.
  • Taxidermy for boys, 232–247;
    • the value of a knowledge of taxidermy to the naturalist, 232;
    • Captain Thomas Brown on the art of stuffing birds and mammals, ib.;
    • how to stuff an owl, 233;
    • skinning, ib.;
    • stuffing, 236;
    • arsenical soap, 239;
    • manner of preserving fish, ib.;
    • preserving insects, 242;
    • Morse insect box, 243;
    • insect groups, 245;
    • how to preserve marine animals, 246.
  • Telescope, the water, 83.
  • Tents for camping out, 160.
  • Thatched houses for camping out, 148;
    • how to build, 150.
  • Theatricals, costumes for, 274.
  • Thompson, Wyville, 94.
  • Throw-sticks, 195;
    • how to make, 186.
  • Thrush, the brown, 175;
    • wood thrush, ib.
  • Toboggan, the, 278.
  • Torches, how to make, 190.
  • Tourist's Curiosities, the game of, 305.
  • Trawl, the, 88.
  • Trolling-hook, manner of attaching to line, 75.
  • Trappers, hints to young, 217.
  • Traps and trappings, 209–222;
    • preparations for autumn, 210;
    • rat traps, ib.;
    • mole traps, 213;
    • deadfalls, 215;
    • toll-gate trap, ib.;
    • hencoop trap, 221;
    • see also Snares.
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  • Uncle Cassius, 134.
  • Universe, the, in a card-box, 368.
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