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Maddox^ on a Brass Slide Clip. 
size figured ; cut several seven-inch lengths ; also obtain some 
thin sheet brass (called^ I believe^ laten brass) ^ about the 
thickness of an ordinary address card; cut off some strips 
five inches by half an inch, place these singly on a flat piece 
of iron, or the ordinary flat iron, and run the head of a 
hammer heavily along them several times to furnish some 
degree of spring; divide these in the middle into two-and- 
a-half inch lengths, then with a stout pair of old scissors or 
small shears cut them into the shape of fig. c, and punch 
with a small turnscrew two cuts, as shown in figure at the 
shoulder ; run a fine file along the edges to take off" the burr. 
These ready, take a piece of hard wood any suitable length. 
one and a half inch wide and half an inch thick ; file a 
small notch on one of the narrow sides, and about the tenth 
of an inch above it ; drill through the wood a hole the size of 
an ordinary bradawl, as in the fig. a, b, and another on a 
line from the notch distant three quarters of an inch; cut 
two stout wires one and half inch in length to pass into these 
holes ; one is seen in section in fig. e. Set the wood in the 
vice, notch from you, and bend one of the slips of brass 
through the two cuts with a piece of the wire bent at double 
right angles, as in fig. d, and place it, wire fitting, into the 
notch of wood ; now with the pliers turn both ends of the 
brass wire under the wire b at each side, then over the wire a 
each side one and half turn, bring the ends backwards in a 
