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various colors. A piece of looking-glass may be 

 used to imitate water ; and ducks from which the 

 lower portions have been cut away may be placed 

 on this with a good effect. A very good stand 

 may be made by simply winding a wire with 

 cotton and painting the cotton. The cotton can 

 be made into a species of papier-mache by soaking 

 it in flour-paste. Rock work is made of either 

 papier-mache, cork, blocks of wood, or pieces of 

 turf painted and sanded, or by pasting stout paper 

 over pieces of wood, and the whole structure 

 painted and sanded. If papier-mache be used the 

 effect may be heightened by sticking in pieces of 

 quartz or other rock. Natural stumps, branches, 

 etc., may be manufactured into stands or cases to 

 advantage ; in short, with the aid of papier-mache^ 

 glue, moss, grasses, smalt, etc., nature may be 

 imitated in a variety of ways. 



