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SCRIBNER’S BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
A NEW EDITION AT REDVCED PRICE.
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THE
AMERICAN Boy’s HANDY BOOK
OR, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT.
BY DANIEL C. BEARD.
One volume, octavo, fully Illustrated by the Author, - - $2.00.
Mr. Beard s book is the first to tell the active, inventive and practical American boy the things
he really wants to know; the thousand things he wants to do, and the ten thousand ways in
which he can do them, with the helps and ingenious contrivances which every boy can etther
procure or make. ‘The author divides the book among the sports of the four seasons; and he
has made an almost exhaustive collection of the cleverest modern devices, besides himself
inventing an immense number of capital and practical ideas.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
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Kite Time—War Kites—Novel Modes of
Fishing—Home-made Fishing Tackle—How
to Stock, Make and Keep a Fresh-Water
Aquarium—How to Stock and Keep a Ma¬
rine Aquarium—Knots, Bends and Hitches—
Dredge, Tangle and Trawl Fishing—Home¬
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‘THE: AAMERIG AN:BOYS made Boats—How to Rig and Sail Small
Boats—How to Camp Out Without a Tent
‘HANDY:BOoKk: ~ | —How to Rear Wild Birds— Home-made
| BY a Hunting Apparatus—Traps and Trapping—
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Dogs — Practical Taxidermy for Boys —
Snow Housesand Statuary— Winged Skaters
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ow Reg \ Charles Van "A Id How to. Make a Magic Lantern—Puppet
. bal pipe Seribiners ő shat Shows—Home-made Masquerade and The¬
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th ú ar toe lil 9. | of a kindred nature.
**It is the memory of the longing that used to possess myself and my boy friends of a few years ago for a real
practical American boy’s book that has induced me to offer this volume. Of course such a book cannot, in the nature
of things, be exhaustive, nor is it, indeed, desirable that it should be. Its use and principal purpose are to stimulate
the inventive faculties in boys, to bring them face to face with practical emergencies when no book can supply the
ar of their own common sense and the exercise of personal intelligence and ingenuity.”—From the Author’.
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** Each particular department is minutely illustrated, and the whole is a complete treasury, invaluable not only
to the boys themselves, but to parents and guardians who have at heart their happiness and healthful development
of mind and muscle.” —Pittsburgh Telegraph.
" The boy who has learned to play all the games and make all the toys of which it teaches, has unconsciously
exercised the inventive faculty that is in him, has acquired skill with his hands, and has become a good mechanic
and an embryo inventor without knowing it.”—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.