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“This book of out-door games for boys will make better boys, and they'll get a lot more joy out of life and be the better men in time, for having read it and carried out its rules as to wholesome, honest sport. The boy who plays an honest game will do an honest business, and he'll
win over "the sneak.” An amazing collection of games and funs from Alfred Rochefort includes marbles, kites, stilts, fishing boating, canoeing, swimming, diving, water games, ball games and many other fascinating active out-door pastime, that develops the ingenuity. An optimistic prescription for the kind of healthy, competitive, yet thoroughly wholesome boyhood, the book was originally published in 1910.

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...record the elevation and thetemperature. THE HARGRAVE, OR BOX KITE, is something new and hitherto unheard of in the kite line. Rigidityand strength, without too much weight, are the prime essentials of theHargrave. It may be made by a boy with a knack for mechanics in thefollowing way: Take eight stiff, slender pieces of bamboo, eighteenand three-quarter inches in length, such as are sometimes used forfishing poles. These pieces must be of uniform weight and length, andas nearly alike as possible. Next cut six sticks, each eleven incheslong, and as nearly alike as possible. These are for the middleuprights and end stretchers. After finding the middle of the longersticks, lash them together in pairs by means of stout waxed thread, orlight brass wire. Notch the ends of the sticks and make the spreadbetween A and C just eleven inches. This will give you four pairs ofcrossed sticks. Next take one of your eleven-inch uprights, and bindit to the two pairs of cross-sticks. Take the other...

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Mike

01 Mar 2011 19:40:10

It's a useful book to read, thanks!

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