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# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/A Musical Box

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​Other broken things, too, can be turned to account.
One such toy, made up of things otherwise quite useless, is
A Musical Box.—This entertaining musical toy, capable of producing the most beautiful sound effects, can quite easily be made with a few broken wine glasses. So long as the bowl part of the glass is intact, it does not matter to what extent the stem or foot part has been damaged, provided there is enough of the stem remaining to insert in a wooden block.
Fig. 93.
The sound effects are produced by rubbing the ball of the finger gently round the rim of the glass. For this the finger-tip must be absolutely clean, particularly of any grease, and must be thoroughly wet. Probably for the first time or two of rubbing nothing will occur. If that is so, continue wetting the finger, and rub it on an india-rubber sponge or a piece of soft india-rubber. You will know at once when the finger-tip is in the right condition, for it will commence to “drag” on the rim. Eventually a most beautiful pealing note will be emitted, which note will alter slightly in tone if water be poured into the glass.
If in this way you can secure eight glasses tuned exactly to an octave, then you have the wherewithal to produce tunes. ​When you have obtained the glasses, then it is quite easy to fit them into a box quite close together, leaving just enough room for the fingers to move round. Blocks of wood must be nailed to the bottom of the box, and holes bored in these blocks just exactly large enough to admit the stem (see Fig. 93).
# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/A Fleet of Nutshell Boats

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​A Fleet of Nutshell Boats floating on a bowl of water makes a very pretty little picture—nor are these little crafts at all
Fig. 94.
difficult to make. For the hull a nice evenly-shaped walnut shell is required: this should be cleaned out, trimmed with a sharp knife, and scrubbed with a stiff brush. For the mast a match stick will suffice. To keep this in position glue two match sticks right across the widest part of the hull—one on each side of the mast—and then put a daub of glue at the bottom of the hull and others where the cross-bars touch the mast.
The sail consists merely of a piece of paper with two holes through which the mast passes. A glance at Fig. 94 will re- ​veal the method of fitting up, and show what a trim little craft can result from such a simple origin.
# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/The Jumping Frog

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​One other toy which has always been deservedly popular is
The Jumping Frog.—If you are skilful with your pocket knife you can cut out a representation of the animal from a lump of wood, and paint it to make it more realistic. If, however, you have not the requisite skill, you can still construct the toy by using a walnut shell in place of the carved model.
Fig. 95.
Fig. 96.
In either case the actual mechanism for “jumping” is the same.
You want a good-sized shell, or rather half-shell, some very strong thin twine, and a match. First you must bore two holes in the sides of the shell, not too near the edge, then tie a loop of twine round the holes and the edge (Fig. 95). Now if you put a piece of match stick between the strings, and twist the string by turning the match round, you will complete the jumping mechanism (Fig. 96). Keep your finger on the match to prevent it flying back, and carefully turn the shell upside down on the table, holding it all the time. Now if you press one finger on the side of the shell so that it slips suddenly from under, then your frog will perform an astounding leap in the air. But, in your eagerness to get a big jump, do not twist the string too tightly, otherwise the holes will break out.
If, as mentioned above, you are skilful enough to cut out ​the frog, you will need to hollow out the body so that there will be room for the turning of the match.
You can also do very much the same with a fowl’s “wishbone” if you tie a loop of string round the two prongs and use the match as shown above.
# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/An Egg-shell Yacht

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​The shell of an ordinary hen’s egg does not seem to give much scope for construction. Yet much can be done with it. One of the best things you can make is
An Egg-shell Yacht.—Next time mother is making cakes, or anything which needs eggs, tell her you want the shell
Fig. 97.
intact, and ask her to let you blow out the contents. To do this, bore a small hole at each end, and blow. Of course, if you have ever collected birds’ eggs, and are an adept at egg-blowing, you will only need one hole.
Stop up the holes with sealing wax or plasticene. This complete shell is to form the hull of the yacht; it will be necessary to add a keel, mainmast, bowsprit, &c., to finish the craft.
​For the mainmast get a very thin piece of wood—a very thin piece of bamboo or a piece of split cane will do—and pass it carefully through two holes which have previously been bored in the opposite sides of the shell. Let it project an inch
Fig. 98.
or two below (Fig. 97a). Fix in position by means of sealing wax. In similar fashion arrange a bowsprit.
As the hull is very light, it will be necessary to have a good steadying keel. A piece of sheet lead about 2 in. long and 1 in. wide will do admirably. Secure it to the shell and the projecting piece of mainmast by means of sealing wax (Fig. 97b).
Now if this floats properly you can proceed with the ​rigging, which may be as simple or as elaborate as you please. Fasten the spars to the mainmast by means of very thin wire. (Sealing wax will do, but is not at all reliable for this.) For the sails use tough tissue paper, gluing the main and top sails in position, and fixing the jib and foresails by means of threads.
The addition of a cardboard rudder—fixed by wax—will complete a trim little craft which will sail in approved regatta fashion, if it has been properly adjusted (Fig. 98).
Nor must broken egg shells be despised. These can be decorated with paints, and some very amusing little articles provided. Legs and arms can be added, fixed into place with dabs of sealing wax; clothes can be devised; and grotesque little toys improvised—toys suitable for the decoration of the Christmas tree or sale at bazaars, &c.
Quite a number of amusing little toys can be made from those cylindrical cardboard cases in which incandescent mantles are usually sold. For the most part the only things needed for the construction are a sharp knife (one with a very thin blade preferred), a tube of glue, one or two odd pieces of cardboard, and some paints.
# Japanese Peasant Songs

Memoirs of the
American Folklore Society
Volume 38
1943
Erminie W. Voegelin, Editor
Associate Editors
* J. W. Ashton
* Marius Barbeau
* Aurelio M. Espinosa
* A. H. Gayton
* George Herzog
* Gladys A. Reichard
Archer Taylor Stith Thompson
Japanese Peasant Songs
Compiled and Annotated by John F. Embree
With the Assistance of
Ella Embree and Yukuo Uyehara
Philadelphia American Folklore Society 1944
Copyright 1944 by the American Folklore Society All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America The William Byrd Press, Inc. Richmond, Virginia
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# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/A Money Box

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​A Money Box, for instance, is always useful, and, by the aid of the paint box, can be made very attractive.
Take off the two end covers, and glue one end of the case to a circle of thick cardboard, about ¼ in. larger in radius than the case. Now for the other end construct a conical top. To do this, draw out a circle with a radius of about 1¼ in. and cut out a sector (see Fig. 9, p. 8). The two ends can then be brought together and fixed with a piece of glued tape, and the whole thing can be glued to the other end of the case.
​Before this is done, however, the money slot should be cut in the side. Much can be done to make the article attractive by a judicious use of the paints. The money slot, for instance, can be regarded as the mouth, and a grotesque face drawn round it.
If you care to cover the conical top with felt or flannel, you
Fig. 99.
can make the model very funny indeed. In the spring you can damp the felt or flannel, and spread on grass seeds: these will grow and give your grotesque figure a fine crop of bright green hair (Fig. 99). Of course, if you are going to damp the upper parts of the model, you must obtain and use some sort of waterproof glue.
# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/A Pin-hole Camera

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​A Pin-hole Camera is another extremely simple yet extra-ordinarily interesting contrivance (Fig. 100).
For this you require two mantle cases, one just large enough to slide easily into the other. Take the smaller one, and cover
Fig. 100.
one end with tissue paper. This must be done neatly and strongly, otherwise, as the case slides up and down in the outer
Fig. 101.
one, the tissue will tear. You should draw out on the tissue a circle just as large as the end of the case, and then all round. draw and cut little pointed tags to lap over the edges and stick down (Fig. 101).
​One end of the outer case should be covered with thick brown paper in just the same way, and a tiny pin hole pricked exactly in the centre of the brown-paper end.
Now if a lighted candle be placed near to the pin hole, and if the inner case be moved to and fro till the right spot is found, an exact picture of the candle flame will be seen on the tissue paper.
# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/A Doll’s Easy Chair

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Fig. 102.
A Doll's Easy Chair.—Apart from accurate and careful cutting there is not very much difficulty in this. Take a mantle case and remove the covers. Now draw a line from end to end and use this as a base line, measuring the distances to right and left to the different points: this will ensure accuracy. Fig. 102 shows one design suitable for the purpose; but you will possibly like to make up your own. The fitting of the ​seat is done as follows: On a piece of cardboard mark out a circle having the same radius as the case, and another circle with a radius ⅛ in. larger. Cut this out as shown in Fig. 103. Now cut a slot a little more than half-way across the case from the front, at a level suitable for the seat, and into this slide the scat. If the slot has not been cut far enough across, go on
Fig. 103.
cutting till the seat fits correctly in the case. Then glue it position.
All that is now required is a coat of paint, and any ornamentation you may care to add.
In conclusion we would point out once more what we stated at the beginning—namely, that the examples given are intended merely to suggest ways and means of making countless other articles.
Printed by The Edinburgh Art Printing Co. Ltd. Edinburgh
# Manual of the New Zealand Flora/Salviniaceæ

Order XCV. SALVINIACEÆ.
Fugacious annuals, of small size, floating in quiet waters. Stems simple or branched. Leaves small, often minute, apparently distichous, sessile or shortly petiolate, simple or lobed. Sporocarps or conceptacles on the under-surface of the stem, either clus​tered on the divisions of an altered submerged leaf, or in pairs in the axils of the leaves, globose or ovoid, membranous, indehiscent, of two kinds, both borne on the same plant; one kind containing a single or many macrosporangia, the other enclosing numerous microsporangia. Macrosporangia containing a single macrospore; microsporangia with numerous microspores.
Genera 2; species about 18, mainly tropical or subtropical. In germination the macrospore produces a rather large prothallium, which remains attached to it, and which bears one or more archegonia. The microspores each develop a rudimentary prothallium bearing a single antheridium containing spermatozoids, fertilisation taking place in the same way as in ferns. In the genus Salvinia, which is not found in New Zealand, the antheridia are formed while the microspores are contained within the microsporangium; but in Azolla the microspores escape in groups called massulæ, each with its proper membrane, and the antheridia are developed within the massulæ.
1. AZOLLA, Linn.
Floating water-plants. Stems copiously pinnately branched, emitting on the under-side numerous rootlets. Leaves densely imbricating, very minute, sessile, deeply and unequally 2-lobed. Sporocarps or conceptacles in pairs in the axils of the leaves on the under-surface of the stem, of two kinds: one kind larger, globose, enclosing numerous microsporangia, each of which contains numerous microspores arranged in separate groups or massulæ furnished with a membranous envelope; the other smaller, ovoid, containing a single macrosporangium within which is a solitary macrospore. Macrospores each crowned with few or many swimming-floats; massulæ of the microspores armed with simple or hooked bristles.
A small genus of 4 or 5 species, found in most tropical or warm temperate regions.
1. A. rubra, R. Br. Prodr. 167.—Floating, red or reddish-green, often gregarious and covering large sheets of water; the separate plants ½–1 in. long, orbicular or ovate or somewhat deltoid, copiously bipinnate. Leaves densely imbricating, about 1/20 in. long, 2-lobed, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Larger sporocarps globose, about 1/20 in. diam.; the massulæ of the microspores armed with copious hooked bristles. Smaller sporocarps hardly more than half the size, oblong; the solitary macrospore crowned with 3 swimming floats.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. ii. 56; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 392; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 680; Bak. Fern Allies, 137.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island: Abundant in still waters throughout.
Also found in Australia and Tasmania, and very closely allied to the South American A. filiculoides, Lam., of which some authors consider it to be a variety.
# Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends/Toy Cannon

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​We propose to describe how to construct a simple
Toy Cannon—one quite easily made at a negligible cost and yet quite effective. The only extra cost will be that of a ​piece of strong elastic the remainder being made of such things as cigar- or chocolate-box wood. Fig. 16 shows the finished article and a careful study of this illustration will make clear much of the method of manufacture.
Fig. 16.
We commence with the stand. This is quite simple, being composed of five pieces of eigar-box wood, a rectangular base, two sides cut as shown, and two small end-pieces to give the sides stability. The measurements you can decide for yourself: we suggest a base 5 in. long and 2 in. wide, and side about 2½ or 3 in. high, as being suitable to the thickness of cigar-box wood.
Fig. 17.
The cannon itself is not very difficult, if made square instead of cylindrical. The barrel is composed of four pieces of thin wood glued together as shown in Fig. 17. The pieces are about 6 in. long, and are cut and fitted to such a width as will leave a square hole in which the rod can move easily. On the under side of this barrel are fixed two pieces of wood— ​one about 1½ in, long and ¾ in. wide at the end near the mouth: to this the elastic will be fixed. The other, a piece about 1¼ in. long and square in section, is fixed about midway along the barrel, and will act as an axle on which the cannon can swing.
The rod by which the shot is ejected should be square in section, and about 5 in. long. At the rear end of it should be fixed two side-pieces to act as stops to prevent the elastic forcing the rod too far into the barrel. A nail driven through these two pieces will prevent the elastic slipping out each time the cannon is fired (Fig. 18).
Fig. 18.
All that remains now is the fixing of the elastic. It should be slipped through the slot at the end of the rod, and the two ends fixed as shown in the first illustration.
If desired, this cannon can be used in connection with the skittles as described on page 30, and in fact the pegs can be quite easily carved into the similitude of soldiers and used for the game. It can also find a place in the “cokernut shy” described on page 31.
# New York Daily News

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# Zhuangzi

The Zhuangzi is an ancient Chinese text from the late Warring States period (3rd century BC) which contains stories and anecdotes that exemplify the carefree nature of the ideal Taoist sage. Named for its traditional author Zhuang Zhou, or Zhuangzi, the book is one of Taoism's foundational texts, along with Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
English-language translations of The Zhuangzi include:
* Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer (1889), translated by Herbert A. Giles
* The Writings of Kwang-dze (1891), part of Vols. V & VI of The Sacred Books of China, translated by James Legge
* Zhuangzi: The Inner Chapters, trans. by Robert Eno
# In the Reign of Coyote/Glossary of California Terms

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GLOSSARY OF CALIFORNIA TERMS
Abalone: a shellfish found on the Pacific coast, having an iridescent shell.
Adobe: originally the sun-baked bricks; also applied to buildings built of these bricks.
Barbecue: the roasting of a whole animal in a pit,—the principal feature of many a festivity.
Cascara sagrada: a medicinal plant whose value is now appreciated by the whole world. Tons of the bark are shipped from California annually.
Chiquita: a diminutive of endearment.
La Fiesta del Señor: Christmas Day.
Lagunita: a little lake.
La Pastorela: a play performed at all the Spanish-Californian settlements on Christmas Eve. It represented the story of the Nativity and of the triumph of the Faith over the wiles of Satan.
Madre: mother.
Mission San Francisco d'Assisi: the foundation of the present city of San Francisco.
Ninita mia: "my little girl," a very common term of endearment.
Padre: father.
Pobrecita: "poor little one," commonly used to-day.
Quadrangle: the Spanish-Californian homes of the better class were built in the shape of a quadrangle, with a central court.
Ripe olives: the ripe olives are those which are not picked from the trees until they are mature. They are pickled in brine, just as the green unripe olives are, but are as much more delicious as is a ripe plum than an unripe one.
Señor: sir.
Tortillas: unleavened cakes of Indian corn or of wheat baked on the coals.
Tules: water reeds.
Whalebone: the vertebræ of the whale were used to pave streets and yards. A vertebra was often used as a seat.
# In the Reign of Coyote/Index

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INDEX
Abalone, 69
Acorn, 22
Adobe, 32, 47
Alder, 92
Alta California, vii, 4
Ant, 31-33
Antelope, 13, 137
Ash, 9
Awl, 80, 81, 104
Baby-blue-eyes, 12
Baja California, vii, 4
Bat, 114-117
Bear, 26
Beaver, 13, 50, 96-99, 139
Blacksmith, 23, 33
Blue Jay, 48-50, 53-54. 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69
Brass buttons, 5, 22
Buttercups, 12
Canary, 125, 130, 131
Cascara, 47, 151
Cassiopeia's Chair, 148
Cat, 32, 74
Cedar, 9, 193
Chaparral, 12
Chicken Hawk, 53
Clam, 68-69
Cloud, 31-32
Coffee berry, 12
Colors, 63-69
Cottonwood, 92
Cougar, 13, 35-37, 137, 144, 146
Coyote, 5-6, 7-13, 15-20, 25-29, 38-41, 56-57, 95-99, 100-104, 109-113, 118-124, 125-131, 132-135, 136-141, 142-147
Crab apple, 39, 40-41
Crane, 82-83, 90-91, 115, 116
Cricket, 34-37
Crow, 91
Cypress, 127
Daughters of Blue Jay, 65-69
Deer, 76-83, 101, 102, 104, 137, 138, 139
Dipper, the, 148
Dog, 13, 32, 74
Dog Star, 54
Eagle, 9-13, 44-45, 126-130, 139
Elder, 39, 40, 98
Elk, 28, 89, 1 01
Epiphany, 75
​Feather, 110, 111
Fig trees, 105
Fir, 12, 93
Fire, 25-29, 32-33, 93, 115, 116
Fish, 137, 139
Flea, 37
Flint, 17, 19
Fox, 28, 57
Frog, 5-6, 21-22, 28-29, 59-61, 128, 129, 144, 146
Good Kings, 74, 75
Great Bear, 54
Grizzly, 13, 76-83, 137, 138, 143
Hawk, 16-19
Hazel, 39, 40, 85, 134
Jack Rabbit, 105-108
Knife, 33
La Fiesta del Señor, 74
Land, 9-12
Land of the Dead, 125-131
Lark, 49, 61
Lizard, 115-116
Loon, 53
Lower California, vii, 4
Man, 135, 136-141, 142-147
Man-of-tar, 70-74
Manzanita, 12, 144, 146
Maple, 92
Mole, 139
Moon, 19-20,56-58,59-61,128, 129
Mosquito, 37, 38-42
Mountain sheep, 101, 137, 138
Mountains, 12
Mouse, 32, 52-53, 137, 139
Nightingale, 49
Oak, 5, 21, 40, 41
Orion, 148
Owl, 53, 113, 118-124, 139, MO
Ox, 33
Panther, 26
Pine, 12, 39, 41
Pleiades, 148-155
Poppies, 12
Potentilla, 65, 66
Rabbit, 105-108
Raccoon, 70-74
Rat, 52-53
Rattlesnake, 43-46
Redwood, 12
Robin, 49, 52, 85-94
Salmon, 95-99
Salmon Berry, 85-90
Serpents, 12-13
Seven sisters, 148-155
Sickness, 11
Skate, 49-50
Skunk, 50-52
Snow, 31
​Southwest wind, 47-55
Squirrel, 28, 74
Star, 132-135, 140, 144, 148-155
Stick, 32
Sun, 15-19, 31, 105-108, 144
Sunflower, 8, in, 132
Taurus, 155
Three Wise Kings, 75
Thrush, 49
Thunder, 109-113, 114
Tick, 100-104
Tules, 17, 19, 153, 154
Turkey, 53
Vine maple, 93
Water, 33
Whip-poor-will, 60-61
Willow, 91-92
Wind, 32, 47-55, II6
Witch, 44-46
Wren, 49