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TOY-MAKING AT HOME

How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends

by

MORLEY ADAMS







New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers

Printed in Great Britain.




PREFACE


This work has been compiled with the assistance of Mr. Walter Higgins,
the well-known instructor in woodwork.

The volume fulfils a long-felt want in that it supplies fascinating
amusement for evenings at home. The making of toys is an engrossing
pastime, and the home-made toy is invariably more novel than the
shop-bought article and of superior quality, besides which there is
always a satisfaction in "I made it myself."

The purpose of the book is to give simple and easily understood
instructions and plain diagrams and sketches for making toys from the
odds and ends that are usually discarded as useless. Matches, Match
Boxes, Cotton Reels, Cocoa Tins, Cigar Boxes, and even Egg Shells
comprise the materials from which are evolved Shops, Working