Games

Passing The Stick
The children sit round the room, or stand in a semi-circle. T...

Glue And Adhesive Tape
Two recent inventions of the greatest possible use to the mak...

The Ditto Game
This is another game in which laughter is forbidden. The play...

I Love My Love
This is not played now as once it was. In the old way the pla...

Witches
"Witches" is a home-made game played thus, according to the ...

Game Lists
"Lists" is a variety of "Fives." Paper is provided, and each ...

Hop Over
All but one of the players, form a ring standing about two fe...

Vaulting Seats
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ This game is played...

CARPENTERING.

How To Manage A Little Garden All The Year Round
JANUARY. The chief wish of the little gardener this month is to take advantage of the hard frosts, and during their prevalence, to wheel upon his ground such manure as may be necessary. It should be wheeled in at...

Uses Of The Various Tools
THE SAW.--Before a saw can be used after it is purchased, it generally has to be "set," as it is termed; that is, its teeth are to be sharpened and placed a little outwards from the plane of its length. There are s...

Stuff
The young carpenter will find it very difficult to work without stuff. He ought, therefore, to purchase a deal sawed into planks or boards, consisting of one three quarters of an inch thick, another one inch thick,...