52 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



There is always a danger of bending pins when 

 they are stuck in the board by hand, hence phers 

 are usually used to grasp the pin in place of one's 

 fingers. 



It is not the object of the writer to tell the 

 ways and means of manufacturing all the things 

 you need, but it is his object to start you on your 



Drying board and needles for holding legs. 



career with a few simply made contrivances and 

 with the idea that as a good American boy with 

 pioneer ancestors you have inherited the ability to 

 think and devise these things yourself; if you are 

 not an American boy, but come of foreign parent- 

 age, you have the United States History to go by, 

 which is the history of your adopted country and 

 tells about those old pioneers who are your an- 



