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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST, 
legs at four inches distant from the ends, 
from this mark take off the wood, leaving 
the end about one inch thick. This will 
give the legs the right * spread.' Nail the 
Fig. 2. 
tapered ends of these legs fast to the top- 
pieces, and about three inches clear from 
the ends of the latter. When this is done, 
and the horses are solid on their legs, 
nail short inch boards across the legs with 
the upper edges put close under the top 
Fig. 
pieces. These pieces act as braces for the 
legs, and supports for the top pieces. 
Now, boys, we have two good saw horses, 
here is one of them shown in Fig. 3. 
You have done well ! " 
"Now then for the workbench! We 
want four legs cut off, two feet four inches 
long, and made oi stuff 4 by 4 inches. 
Two feet six inches — which will be the 
height of the bench when completed, on 
account of the two inch top — is rather too 
high for you boys, but, as I may want to 
use it myself sometimes, it is better made 
high enough now, and you boys can put 
a plank on the floor when you want to use 
the bench to raise you high enough to 
work with ease. 
The legs being cut, it is now necessary 
to cut the cross pieces or bearers. We 
want five of these : they require to be one 
inch thick, tw^elve inches wide, and three 
feet long. Mind and cut them off square 
at the ends, and have them all exactly of 
the same length." 
" There, children, I think that will do 
for this evening, we will complete the 
workbench to-morrow evening, after you 
arrive from school," 
The boys were anxious to keep at work, 
but Mr. Carpenter told them that it would 
be best not to do too much at once, or they 
might get tired, and not care to work at 
all. 
(To he continued.) 
A Breakfast for a Whale- What it Was, 
and How it was Got— II. 
BY A. W. ROBERTS. 
Concluded front page 103. 
T^IKST I visited the "Captain's," and eat 
as hearty a meal as I could, for I be- 
gan to suspect that I had some hard work 
before me. Then to Pyne's, to read up 
on white whales ; and after that to the 
Fulton Market fish stands, to find out the 
nearest fishing station, and if I could 
reach it in time for a catch. 
The first man I spoke to informed me 
that Barnum's folks had been to the mar- 
ket that morning, trying to obtain a hun- 
dred pounds of live eels, but that at that 
season of the year all the eels came to the 
market packed in ice. I asked why other 
kinds of fish were not just as good as 
eels, and he informed me that eels were 
best, because they lived a long while, 
i and had soft fins, whereas a sea bass or 
I black fish would be apt to stick in the 
; gullet of a whale and choke him. This 
agreed exactly with the conclusions I had 
reached up to this time. I gave him a 
cigar and several passes to the museum, 
and then asked more questions. I found 
that the nearest fishing station was Union- 
ville, Gravesend Bay, and that Ed Morris 
was the most reliable man to go to ; that 
the tide was in my favor, and that I would 
be in time to catch the stage from Green- 
wood to the bay. 
When I readied Greenwood the stage 
had gone. After a long talk, I coaxed 
(with money) one of the cemetery hack- 
men to drive me at full speed to Union- 
ville. 
My heart fairly bounded as I passed 
