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how to make, that are quite as interest- 

 ing as manufactured toys. Bows and 

 arrows, sHng-shots and darts, spears and 

 lances, jumpers, and sleds, hoops, growl- 

 ers, kites, and water-wheels. All these 

 and many other simple devices, make 

 the country boy's life quite as full and 

 happy as that of the pampered, toy-laden 

 city child. 



I was particularly fortunate in my 

 companionship afield, for I enjoyed the 

 confidence of two or three old woods- 

 men, at whose heels I tramped the 

 woods in spring, summer, autumn, and 

 winter. 



Together we saw the wary partridge 

 spring from cover on roaring wings, and 

 speed away like an express trainc The 

 whistling wings of the woodcock did not 

 give us such a start, and as he flew much 

 slower, one had a better view of him. 



