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can make a first-rate chimney-pot, but when out of the 

 chimney-pot groove he is rather at sea. If he tells you that he 

 can cut out in zinc your pattern correctly, " Trust him not, 

 he's fooling thee " ; at any rate, carefully check his work, and 

 you may find it out a trifle, and this trifle when magnified 

 in the lantern is no trifle.) With correctly-cut zinc patterns 

 you can get through the work of making carriers very 

 quickly. The pattern with the larger opening may be 

 labelled W, for it is for wood only, and the other labelled 

 C, for cardboard. 



The wood to use is the best pine, which in thickness 

 should approximate to the average lantern slide, say one- 

 eighth of an inch. This can be obtained at any good saw- 

 mills. Laying the zinc pattern on this, and pencilling 

 by its aid, a whole board can be quickly marked out for 

 cutting. This cutting can be easily accomplished by using 

 a sharp shoemaker's knife. The cardboard can be of the 

 thinnest description, and this, too, can be cut in the same 

 manner, using the zinc pattern designed for it. With 

 several wooden pieces ready cut, and double their number 

 of cards, you may now proceed to put them together. With 

 good hot, but thin glue, paint over one surface of the wood, 

 and press one of the cards upon it, taking care that the 

 centres of the two agree. Place the joined pieces on your 

 work-table, with a heavy, flat weight above them ; when 

 No. 2 is similarly treated, place it also under the weight, until 

 you have a goodly pile of pieces of wood faced on one side 

 with card. Leave them for the night. The next opera- 

 tion is to place a glass picture in each half -formed slide, 

 and to glue the cardboard face to each. Once more the 



