Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

A Boy's Workshop: With plans and designs for in-door and out-door work

I. =The Reading Union Library=, a series prepared for the Chautauqua Young Folks’ Reading Union, $1.00 volume, fully illustrated; four volumes now ready, others in preparation: (a) _Magna Charta Stories_, thrilling tales of the world’s great struggles for liberty, edited by Ar...

Chapters

3. Part 3

After the shelf is fitted into its place in the cabinet, you will find that at one end you have a convenient little tray to hold such things as chalk-line, rule, pencils, and ot...

2. Part 2

You will have two pieces twenty-three inches long and six inches wide; these are the two end braces. Lay one of these pieces across the legs you have just joined, at the closed...

6. Part 6

First set up the centre poles and ridgepole, placing the latter on top of the former, and sliding the iron pins down through the eyes. (_Fig. 3._) Then place in position the _re...

4. Part 4

The directions for finding the angles might be given mathematically, so that you could get them for yourself with a little figuring, but it will be easier practically to find th...

7. Part 7

To finish the smoke stack, and make it look like the newest fashion in American engines, you must nail on to the top, with brads, a round piece of wood, a quarter of an inch thi...

5. Part 5

It may be constructed of nicely-selected pine, for this is easily obtained, is cheap, and any little mistake will not entail too much expense if the work has to be done again, a...

8. Part 8

While there are several instruments in the market with which the negative can be taken, most of them are so costly as to be beyond the reach of a boy or a girl with a limited su...

1. Part 1

I. =The Reading Union Library=, a series prepared for the Chautauqua Young Folks’ Reading Union, $1.00 volume, fully illustrated; four volumes now ready, others in preparation:...

9. Part 9

(the strength being strength of purpose) also a good head for planning, and a memory, it turned out that the chessmen fancy proved a good thing. Nothing outside of good, hard, s...