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front view drawn to scale, and will try to 
describe it and give such instructions for 
its construction, that I think will make it 
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possible for any amateur fairly skilled in 
the use of tools, to make one as complete 
as the one shown in the engraving. 
The actual example from which the en- 
graving is taken is made of cherry ebon- 
ized, and is extremely ijretty; I would 
therefore suggest that cherry be used for 
making the one now under consideration. 
To this end it will require two pieces for 
sides, about 9 inches wide, and 2 feet 8 
inches long, and 1 inch thick. About three 
feet superficial measure and 1 inch thick 
for a panel door, front casings x x x, front 
of drawer d, and top a a a. The shelf over 
the draVer, the bottom of the cabinet, the 
slide under the drawer, and the double 
bracket e under the drawer may be made 
of cherry five-eighths, naif inch, or three- 
eighths thick. The outsides of the drawer 
should be made of stuff 2 inches thick, 
and have small panel on the end of each 
one as shown on the front view. The 
door is framed together like any ordinary 
panel door, and the ornamental panel in 
the centre is simply a single Minton tile, 
or where the tiles cannot be obtained a 
plain pine panel may be substituted, and 
hand-painted, or plate or stained glass 
may be used, but when tiles are used a 
much better effect is produced. The 
panel in the back, just above the drawer, 
may be hand-painted or otherwise 
ornamented. 
The double bracket r, and the circular 
brackets at the lower ends of the sides, may 
easily be cut out by aid of a scroll saw, so 
also may the side brackets above the 
drawer and the ornaments on the top of 
the sides. 
Fig. 2 shows a scale by which all the 
Fig. 2. 
measurements in the engravings. Figures 
1 and 3, may be taken. The small di- 
visions represent inches, and the largest 
divisions represent feet. It will be seen 
that by using this scale any part of the 
design may be measured accurately and 
transposed to actual inches and feet. 
The ornaments shown on r and on the 
side, Fig. 3, are incised or cut into the 
Pig. 3. 
wood about a quarter of an inch deep, and 
the widest incisions, like the Maltese cross 
and the lance-head ornaments, should be 
embossed. This can be done with 
punches, but where] these are not avail- 
