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The Book of Woodcraft 



FIRESIDE TRICK 



An Indian showed me this, though I have since seen 

 it among whites! 



Put your hands together as in the drawing, palms also 

 touching. 



The thumbs are you 

 and your brother. You 

 can separate easUy — 

 like that. 



The first fingers are 

 you and your father, you 

 can separate not quite 

 so easily — Hke that: 



The little fingers are 

 you and your sister, you 

 can separate, but that 

 comes a little harder 

 still — like that. 



The middle fingers are 



you and your mother, 



you can separate, but it 



is hard — see that. 



The ring fingers are 



you and your sweetheart, you cannot separate without 



everything else going first to pieces. 



THE LONE STAR TRICK 



A Texan showed me an interesting trick on the table. 

 He took six wooden toothpicks, bent them sharply in the 

 middle, and laid them down in the form shown in "A.'" 



"Now," he says, "when our people got possession of 

 Texas, it was notliing but a -wilderness of cactus spines. 



