STRETCHERS AND PELTING-POLE 

 AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. 



THE MINK STRETCHER. 



TAKE a piece of board twenty inches long, 

 six inches wide, and one-half inch thick. Give 

 it a gradual slope of one and a half inches on 

 each edge, leaving the board its full width at 

 one end and half its width at the other, also 

 slope from the edge on both sides to the cen- 

 ter, leaving the board its full thickness in the 

 center and one-half its thickness on the edges. 



THE MUSKRAT STRETCHER. 



Take a piece of board fifteen inches long, 

 from four to six inches wide, and one-half 



