The American Boy's Handy Book [SCM]

Chapters

• 1 Kite Time
• 2 War Kites
• 3 Novel Modes of Fishing
• 4 Home-Made Fishing Tackle
• 5 How to Stock, Make, and Keep a Fresh-Water Aquarium
• 6 How to Keep Aquatic Plants in the House or Flower-Garden
• 7 How to Stock and Keep a Marine Aquarium
• 8 How to Collect for Marine Aquarium
• 9 Knots, Bends, and Hitches
• 10 The Water-Telescope
• 11 Dredge, Tangle, and Trawl Fishing
• 12 Home-Made Boats
• 13 How to Rig and Sail Small Boats
• 14 Novelties in Soap-Bubbles
• 15 Fourth of July Balloons, with New and Novel Attachments
• 16 How to Camp Out without a Tent
• 17 Bird Singers, Etc.
• 18 Bird Nesting
• 19 How to Rear Wild Birds
• 20 How to Rear Wild Birds - continued
• 21 Home-Made Hunting Apparatus, etc.
• 22 How to Make Blow-Guns, Elder Guns, etc.
• 23 Traps and Trappings
• 24 Dogs
• 25 Practical Taxidermy for Boys
• 26 Every Boy a Decorative Artist
• 27 Snowball Warfare
• 28 Snow-Houses and Statuary
• 29 Sleds, Chair-Sleighs, and Snow-Shoes
• 30 How to Make the Tom Thumb Ice-Boat and Larger Craft
• 31 The Winged Skaters, and How to Make the Wings
• 32 Winter Fishing
• 33 In-Door Amusements
• 34 The Boy's Own Phunnygraph
• 35 How to Make Puppets and a Puppet-Show
• 36 Puss-in-Boots
• 37 How to Make a Magic Lantern
• 38 How to Make the Dancing Fairies, the Bather, and the Orator
• 39 How to Make Various and Divers Whirligigs
• 40 The Universe in a Card-Box
• 41 Life Instilled into Paper Puppets, and Matches Made of Human Fingers
• 42 Home-Made Masquerade and Theatrical Costumes