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The Book of Woodcraft 



FIRESIDE TRICK 



An Indian showed me this, though I have since seen 

 it among whites! 



Put your hands together as in the drawing, palms also 

 touching. 



The thumbs are you 

 and your brother. You 

 can separate easily — 

 like that. 



The first fingers are 

 you and your father, you 

 can separate not quite 

 so easily — Hke that: 



The Uttle fingers are 

 you and your sister, you 

 can separate, but that 

 comes a Httle harder 

 still — like that. 



The middle fingers are 



you and your mother, 



you can separate, but it 



is hard — see that. 



The ring fingers are 



you and your sweetheart, you cannot separate without 



everything else going first to pieces. 



THE LONE STAR TRICK 



A Texan showed me an interesting trick on the table. 

 He took six wooden toothpicks, bent them sharply in the 

 middle, and laid them down in the form shown in "A.'* 



"Now," he says, "when our people got possession of 

 Texas, it was nothing but a wilderness of cactus spines. 



