The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours (1905) (14803090353)

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Title: The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours

Year: 1905 (1900s)

Authors: Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely), b. 1883

Subjects: Woodwork Toys Amusements

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^UtjLry^nd of stickFig. 47. —a Fly-killer. The brooms should therefore have screw-eyes placed inthe handle, just above the tin binding, to hang upon thehooks, as shown in the illustration. The rack should be screwed to the wall. Fly-papers and poisons are deadly enemies to thehouse-fly, but none are as effectual or as quick acting as The Fly-killer, shown in Fig. 47. This simple deviceconsists of a piece of screen-wire, about four by fiveinches, stuck into a slot made in the end of a stick, andfastened in place with tacks driven through the end ofthe handle and clinched upon the under side. PROFITABLE PASTIMES If possible, cut the wire with a selvage along the frontedge, and trim the roughness from the other edges to prevent scratching. The fly-killer is hung up by a screw-eye placed m the end of the handle.

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Fig. 48. —An Ash-sifter. With the fly-killer a person can strike at a %_withalmost a certainty of killing it. As the scree-v^e .snot easily seen by the fly, and the mesh allows the arr topass through, there is nothing to alarm him. THE BOY ABOUT THE HOUSE 53 These little things are quickly made, and when youshow your customer how effective they are, you will findno trouble in disposing of them. An Ash-sifter that is dust-proof and very satisfactoryis shown in Fig. 48. It is made out of a packing-caseabout three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-four inches deep. Set the box upon two-by-four stilts in the shed oryard (braced as shown in the illustration), in such aposition that the bottom of the box w^ill be on a levelwith the top of the alley ash-box. Then cut an openingthrough the shed wall and end of the box, as shown atAB, for the removal of ashes. Two strips are nailedto the sides of the box (seven inches below the top) fortracks for the sifter to run upon, and below t

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