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CARPENTRY AND WOODWORK


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THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY OF WORK AND PLAY


    CARPENTRY AND WOODWORK
           By Edwin W. Foster

    ELECTRICITY AND ITS EVERYDAY USES
           By John F. Woodhull, Ph.D.

    GARDENING AND FARMING
           By Ellen Eddy Shaw

    HOME DECORATION
           By Charles Franklin Warner, Sc.D.

    HOUSEKEEPING
           By Elizabeth Hale Gilman

    MECHANICS, INDOORS AND OUT
           By Fred T. Hodgson

    NEEDLECRAFT
           By Effie Archer Archer

    OUTDOOR SPORTS, AND GAMES
           By Claude H. Miller, Ph.B.

    OUTDOOR WORK
           By Mary Rogers Miller

    WORKING IN METALS
           By Charles Conrad Sleffel

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[Illustration: Photograph by Helen W. Cooke. The Shop--the Most
Interesting Place in the World on a Stormy Day]


The Library of Work and Play

CARPENTRY AND WOODWORK

by

EDWIN W. FOSTER

[Illustration]







Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1911

All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1911, by Doubleday, Page & Company




PREFACE


There is a period in a boy's life, roughly speaking between the ages of
ten and sixteen, when his interests and energy turn in the direction
of making things. It may be called the creative period, and with many
of us it ends nearer sixty than sixteen. At one time it will take the
form of a mania for building boats; again it may be automobiles or
aeroplanes.

The