The morning times., 1896-08-09
SailbOatS 9
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9 Young People
RY + CARTER BEARD.


The great river near which 1 lived when
q child has a confirmed habit of abandon
Ing its Old chanuel and experimenting in
different directions to find Others TO suit
1t better. Striking out and carrying It's
great yellow flood across woodland and
meadow, it leaves long depressions in Its
deserted bed where occur chains OF lakes
Or pools, which we used to call bayous,
though that is not quite corr rect, for
bsvous are, strictly speaking, inlets cou-
pected with larger bodies of water.
Some of the bappiest recollections of
my childhood are Intimately connected
with one OF these o-called bayous. Here,
under the guardianship of faithful old
negro, We bathed, fished, and sailed our
toy boats or, as a good old maiden lady,
who occasionally accompanied Us when
Uncle Pauls services We're required else
where, cal led them mimic craft" Bless
her heart, she once saved my life before
/ had learned to swim by fishing me out
of n deep hole near the bank, off which
| had fallen into the water, with the
crook of her old-fashioned umbrella.
AS We knew liLllt OF DpliiihS III tily mt
Or the great emporiums where everything
that can enter into the imagination of a
Chilli to conceive is furnished ready made,
we had not only to invent many of our
games, but also manufacture most of our
toys. / do not know, however, that we
Thought less of them on that account. In
decd, / cannot help thinking, when l re-
member the pleasure we had in planning
and making. that ready-Inade toys would
not have been worth half as much 10 Us.
Our first toy boats, of shingles whitfield
10 n point for a bow, with a splinter for
mast, a piece of paper for sail and an
other for flag, and bit of shinglc al
most as largo as the boat-for a rudder did
very well ut first but we soan outgrew
them. We were ambitious to do better.
We experimental with wooden boats made
of cubes or blocks OF pine. To cut out a
model of boat from a block of wood
may seem ut first sight an easy affair.
To one who knows how to do it the task
IS not perhaps very difficult, though for
Its proper execution considerable amount
OF care and nicely as well as time is re-
quired, to say nothing OF the number OF
tools needed. and appliances which are.
generally speaking, far beyond the purses
or power OF children to acquire, and most
certainly are to little folks situated US
we were.
A HAPPY INNOVATION.
At last a cousin of ours named Tom
Champln invented the easy, practical and
ingenious way of making toy boats, which
] shall have to describe for the benefit Of
the juvenile boat building public in gen.
eral. The sort of boat referred to is called
paste boats. They are tight as egg shells,
elegant in, appearance, strong almost as
iron, and best of all, require nothing in
shcir making that children are not likely
to possess.
In the first place, Tom, in making one,
took the cover of pasteboard box and cut
from it the shape measuring eight inches,
seen in figure2. Then, with a sharppocket-
knife, he partly cut through the lines /. .
and 3, and doubled the pasteboard together
ON the line g liter which he bent over sides
and 2, bringing the points a and into
contact, which gave him a flat bottom with
n keel projecting at right angles from it,
as at figure 3.
He next cut two strips from the rema in
ing pasteboard in the box-cover, like that
shown al the edge OF fig. 2, and bent them
about the edge of the fiat piece, so that
ihey met in front where-a "a and come to-
Tether. He fastened them in place by