COST OF EQUIPMENT 



Moreover, a large piano box costing |i.oo can be 

 made weatherproof and serviceable for the keeping 

 of tools. A I25 tent can be made to take the 

 place of the more costly portable house. A 

 shelter from the hot sunshine may be a canopy 

 of quickly growing vines.* If a tent is used, it 

 must have a fly or it will be worse than a gridiron 

 in hot weather, and give little protection in storms. 



Section of Wooden Pergola 



One can, perhaps, get along without a water 

 supply, but sometimes a 4-inch hydrant and hose 

 is almost a necessity. Then again, in many places 

 the water supply is furnished. Tools can be les- 

 sened in number by giving different groups of 

 children one kind of tool to use at a time, and ex- 



* Posts driven into the ground and connected by wires to support 

 quick growing vines will form the sides of a shelter that might have 

 a double canvas and rainproof top. 



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