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Billy says that he 

 intends to make sev- 

 eral boxes of that big 

 one. He is now meas- 

 uring the sides and 

 plans to divide the box 

 into three shallow 

 " Hats " of about the 

 same height, 



I am glad to see 

 that he is trying to do 

 the work very accu- 

 rately and well. He 

 means to be a very 

 skillful workman 

 when he is a man. 

 But I am sorry to say 

 that he is not as care- 

 ful as he should be of 

 his father's tools. He 



is nailing on the bottoms of his flats with a clumsy blacksmith's hammer 



because he has mislaid the good carpenter's hammer which would do the 



work so much better. 



His father says that whenever he misses a tool he does not hunt for 



it, but immediately looks up Billy instead and sees that he returns it to 



its place. 



Fig. 2. — Measuring careftdly. 



I'lG. ■!,. — Good work with a poor tool. 



