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action, it is worth buying at a fair price. 

 One may sometimes find, in the yard of a 

 country builder, an old baluster, which 

 may be purchased for a very few dollars 

 and will serve its purpose as a sundial shaft 

 admirably. 



If a new stone shaft is to be made, then sketch 

 some good old pattern. Make a careful full- 



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Fig. 92. — Brick Sundial 



size drawing, and get the local mason to hew 

 it out of any granitic rock, but do not permit 

 him to add any embellishments of his own. 



