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... Stands Cloth Kite . 18 Main - mast . • Officer Kite 19 Cross - trees . Top - mast The Race 21 Bowsprit The Fox Hunt 25 Main - boom The Thaumatrope 34 Gaff Card Racks 36 Pair of Steps 39 Horse and Cart . 40 • Yard . Standing Rigging Dead ...
... Stands Cloth Kite . 18 Main - mast . • Officer Kite 19 Cross - trees . Top - mast The Race 21 Bowsprit The Fox Hunt 25 Main - boom The Thaumatrope 34 Gaff Card Racks 36 Pair of Steps 39 Horse and Cart . 40 • Yard . Standing Rigging Dead ...
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... stand higher amongst the useful and dignified callings , and he himself might perhaps in time be joined as a helper to the schoolmaster . He will become less frivolous the more that grave men look kindly on the labours that endeavour to ...
... stand higher amongst the useful and dignified callings , and he himself might perhaps in time be joined as a helper to the schoolmaster . He will become less frivolous the more that grave men look kindly on the labours that endeavour to ...
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... stand upright . The Spectators . Fold a piece of paper four times the size you require your men , and cut out as before described in fig . 2 ; open out , and place them outside the railings in rows ( fig . 5 ) . The Winning - post , or ...
... stand upright . The Spectators . Fold a piece of paper four times the size you require your men , and cut out as before described in fig . 2 ; open out , and place them outside the railings in rows ( fig . 5 ) . The Winning - post , or ...
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... stand , the inequalities of the ground may be made up of pieces of paper , cardboard , or bits of decayed twigs of trees , sand , moss , & c . , and fixed with a little gum . Gates ( fig . 11 ) . These must be cut out of card- board ...
... stand , the inequalities of the ground may be made up of pieces of paper , cardboard , or bits of decayed twigs of trees , sand , moss , & c . , and fixed with a little gum . Gates ( fig . 11 ) . These must be cut out of card- board ...
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... stand by splitting the cardboard up to the dotted lines , and fixing the ends with gum or paste . Cut out not less than three of these . FIC.II. Hedges . Procure if possible some green paper ; fold it together about four or five times ...
... stand by splitting the cardboard up to the dotted lines , and fixing the ends with gum or paste . Cut out not less than three of these . FIC.II. Hedges . Procure if possible some green paper ; fold it together about four or five times ...
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African Wanderers amusement attached Author bait ball BARBARA HUTTON bend birds block boat bottle bottom bowsprit boys brass centre Chromolithography cloth elegant coloured Illustrations corner cross-trees cylinder deck dotted lines Edition electrical Engravings fasten Fcap feather FIC.I fish fold four front G. A. HENTY gaff gilt edges glass GRIFFITH AND FARRAN half hand HARRISON WEIR hook horse inside kite larvæ length magnet main-mast mast methylated spirit Model Yachts paint Paper Boards pass piece of paper piece of wood portion PUBLISHED BY GRIFFITH PUZZLE rigging ropes round rowlocks sails scissors shape shellac Shillings Shillings and Sixpence side silk slips small hole spritsail square stand stout string strips Take a piece Thomas Dunman THOMAS HOOD thread top-mast TOY-MAKER tube upper vessel W. H. G. KINGSTON wire yard young
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