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The Handiest Thing Out! 

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Baby'' Sewing Machine. 



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 and $1.50 additional and we will send you the 

 machine. 



It is not a toy, but a perfect little Sewing 

 Machine and Warranted to do Good 

 Sewing on any material that can be used 

 on the regular sewing machine. 



It uses regular Willcox & Gibbs needles, 

 and No. 60, 70 or 80 soft thread. Silk thread 

 works beautifully on this machine. 



It make a chain stich. 



It has a patent finger pi'otector which abso- 

 lutely prevents the smallest child from getting 

 its finger under the needle, either by accident 

 or intent. 



It has a tension screw for regulating the 

 tension. 



It is simple in construction, not liable to 

 get out of order, and the smallest child can 

 successfully work it. 



It is attached to table, chair or any conven- 

 ient place by clamp, which is furnished with 

 each machine. 



It has no attachment of any kind, but is in- 

 tended to do plain sewing only. 



It is sent, complete, in a wood box, secure- 

 ly packed, and the machine properly adjusted, 

 with thread, clamp, needle, and everything 

 necessary to begin sewing the minute it is 

 opened up. Simple directions for its opera- 

 tion in each box! 



Each machine is thoroughly tested befoi'e 

 leaving the factory and a sample of its sewing 

 left on the cloth plate. All Express charges 

 prepaid, or mailed in registed package (if no 

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WALTER F. WEBB, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



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A Book for the Seaside, the Lake and 

 the Forest. 



West Coast Shells. 



A familiar description of the Marine, Fresh 

 Water and Land Mollusks found in the U. S., 

 West of the Rocky Mountain, by 



JOSIAH KEEP, A. M. 



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The kind reception given to my little book 

 on the "Common Sea-Shells OF California" 

 has induced me to prepare this larger work, 

 embracing a wider territory, namely, that 

 part of the United States lying west of the 

 Rocky Mountains. The present volume in- 

 cludes descriptions of all the species mentioned 

 in the former one, and also treats of many of 

 the uncommon and minute shells which are 

 found along the coast, from Alaska on the 

 north, to Mexico on the south. It also des- 

 cribes the land and freshwater mollusks of 

 Califoi'n a, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah 

 and Nevada; thus making it of use as a refer- 

 ence book for the interior, as well as along 

 the sea-coast. 



The nearly two hundred engravings have 

 all been drawn from nature, expressly for this 

 work, and while materially increasing its cost, 

 they will, I trust, even more increase its val- 

 ue. 



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