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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
knowledge of coloring, though limited, 
was always guided by good taste. Of 
course she used her best efforts to make 
Uncle Joe a picture, and the result was a 
very decent sketch of an old mill done in 
monochrome or single color. 
Amy also made another picture for the 
frame that looked very well, but after con- 
sideration, she decided to give Uncle Joe 
the sketch of the mill. The other picture 
was formed by taking one of the statue 
pictures, that are so abundant in many of 
our pictorial papers, and cutting the paper 
carefully away from the picture all round, 
leaving only the pedestal or stand along 
with the statue. When this is satis- 
factorily done the print is carefully 
I)asted on a back-ground of black velvet, 
when a beautiful picture is obtained, 
which when framed with an oval arched 
headed, grey pebbled mat, is very pleas- 
ing, and more particularly so when a 
spray of leaves or flowers is painted in 
appropriate colors on one side of the mat, 
as Amy treated her picture. 
Robert was very well pleased Avith the 
result of his labors and determined to 
continue them, but in another direction. 
Eobert had an aunt as well as an uncle. 
Bobert was fond of his aunt, and it was a 
matter of pleasure as w^ell as of duty to 
make her something, but the question 
was " wdiat will I make her?" He 
finally decided to make her a chair, and 
the style of chair chosen is shown in the 
engraving. He chose this style of chair 
because it is easily made and would give 
him an opiwrtunity to use both his scroll 
saw and lathe. 
The chair is made of white ash, and is 
put together very strongly with mortises 
<ind tenons. The frame-work in the back 
is formed of stuff one inch by one and a 
lialf inch, with the exception of the bottom 
])iece, wliicli is two inches wide. The little 
]"ail on the top of the turned spindles, is 
one inch by three-quarters of an inch 
laid flatways on the turned work. The 
spindles are two inches long from shoulder 
1o shoulder, and are turned to shape in 
the lathe, A pin three-eighths in diameter 
and about a half an inch long is left on j 
each end of ti e spindles. These pins go 
into holes made in the two top cross rails 
as shown. Care is required in boring 
the holes in the upper rail so that they 
may not go through and show on the top 
of the work. 
The back uprights show one and a - 
quarter inches in thickness and two inches 
in width, and are two feet ten inches high 
from the floor. A cross rail, not seen in 
the engraving, is framed in between the 
uprights. Another rail is framed in lower 
down, as shown. The segmental or 
curved pieces forming the front legs, are 
the same thickness and width as the back 
legs. The turned uprights are one and a 
quarter inches square, and have on their 
top ends pins to liold the seat, and on their 
lower ends tenons to fit snugly into 
mortises made in the curved pieces. 
The lower rails are made of stuff one by 
one and a half inches and are tenoned to 
fit in mortises made in the several legs. 
The frame for the seat is made from stuff 
one by one and three-quarter inches, and 
is framed together with mortise and 
tenon. 
Previous to commencing work Robert 
made a full sized rough pencil drawing of 
the chair on the floor, making all the 
dimensions the same as here described ; 
j this enabled him to get all his lengths, 
curves and shoulders accurately. The 
seat and back were rebated on their inside 
