Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-11-09

top Of a post, prepare two blocks with
right-angled birds mouth" cuts In
them Gig. ~, and nail these to the
sides of the post. Then fasten the
box to the blocks. Drive short peg
Into hole bored below each end door
way, for perch stick.
To prevent cats and squirrels from
reaching the ark, wide, projecting
collar of tin or sheet iron should be
fastened around the post one foot or so
below the top.
The bird cottage shown in Fig 5
contains three compartments. The low
er portion may be made out OF box
of about the size used for the ark, but
better results will be obtained by build
ing the entire house. Box boards win
be good enough material. Divide the
lower story OF the cottage through the
center, as In Fig. 6, and fasten the sec
ond story floor to the top OF the parti.
ton and side walls. Cut the roof
boards of the proper lengths and
widths to form projections at the caves
and over the front, and after mailing
them to the side walls of the house.
cut the gable-end boards to At between
the roof boards and fasten them in
place.
Cut the doorways In the positions
indicated In Fig. s, and fasten a perch
beneath each. Instead of pegs, win
dow-sash lifts" drawer pulls" screw.
eyes, and many other small pieces OF
hardware may be used for perches.
The bracket support for this house
Is easy to make, as you will see by
Figs. s and Z, and on account OF the
wide projection OF the top and back
members. over the triangular piece, 1t
can be screwed or nailed to both the
under side of the house and to tho
wall, thus providing very strong
means OF fastening.
Do not paint the inside Of your bird
houses, but give the outside a couple
of coats OF green paint OF about the
shade generally used for flower boxes.
Copyright. 1912, by A. Nicely HALL
nicipal administrations and our free.
dom from graft In civic affairs.
'If you come. however, to some
thing like the crowd on the prom
enade at Blackpool, you have several
other English crowds to compare 1t
with. You have the crowds at Folke-
stone, at Margate, at Brighton. which,
although they are vastly smaller, are
SO much larger than any American
seaside crowds that there is no talking
in the same breath except of Atlantic
City alone at Easter time.
TT you are there then. at that point
where the myriads of the Board Walk
thicken for a conscious moment under
the eye OF the camera scanning It for
postal card photograph, you can
have some notion of the crowd forever
writhing. forever worming, squirming
up and down at Blackpool.
Dreadful enough to look at, the
mammoth mass became terrible when
you fused yourself in its bulk. 1t
seemed the same in bulk by night and
by day; 1t must have slept some time,
perhaps not in bulk but in detail. each
atom that sank away to slumber re-
placed by another atom fresh for the
vigil; OF II 10 slept in bulk 1t was IN
some commandment sort, with the
sense of bad dream, writhing and
twisting nightmare.
ut was always awful to look upon,
but awfullest at high noon. when It
had swollen to its hugest and was
imaginably furnishing for lunch with
the hunger Of some consuming insect
horde. Possibly am exaggerating in
the impression am trying to give Of
the Blackpool crowd. Doubtless any
happy couple. near wed or newly wed.
Of those that abounded In the mass
could prove me grotesquely mistaken.
If not wilfully false. They could say
that they had the time OF their lives
that day at Blackpool and could osk
nothing better than to repeat their
transport"
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