The Outdoor Handy Book by Beard, D.C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Spring

CHAPTER I - MARBLES

Marble Time. Terms Used in the Game. The Right Spirit. Knuckle Dabsters. A Marble Bag Whom to Play Marbles With. How Marbles Were First Made. Marbles in America. Made Abroad Nowadays. Local Names of Marbles. How Marbles are Made. Common Marbles. The Alley. The China and Plaster. The Bumbo and Peawee. Crystals The “Lucky Taw.” Cunny Thumb or Scrumpy Knuckled. A Southern Way. The Arabian Way of Shooting.

CHAPTER II - “FAT” AND OTHER FAMOUS GAMES OF MARBLES.

Fat. Beginning the Game. Number Two’s Play. “Killing.” The Uncertainties of “Yank.” Stand-up Marbles. “Follerings,” or Followings, The Art of Babying. Knucks. The Long Ring. Patterson. Gambling Games. The Bull Ring. Sneaking or Dribbling. Duck-in-a-Hole. King Duck. Meg-in-a-Hole Meg-on-a-String. What Counts. Block or Square Ring.

CHAPTER III - TOP TIME

Home-made Tops. Plug in the Ring. Get a Good String. A Great Honor. Chip Stone. Whip-Tops—Eel-skin Whips the Best. To Spin the Top. Fighting Tops. Racing Tops.

CHAPTER IV - LATEST THINGS IN KITES

Kites for Practical Uses. The Pulley and Weight Kite. Steering Kites. Driving a Kite Attached to a Wagon. Why not Use a Sled? Keeled Buoys Towed by Kites near New York City. The First Experiment. Kites for Sails for Small Boats. Kites for Swimming. The Belly-bands. “Kite Broken Loose !” A Team of Eight Kites Loose. A Runaway’s Experience. Kite at Boothbay Tows a Plank. Notes to Neptune. Messengers up the Kite String. High Fliers. The Queerest Kite Ever Made. Mr. J. B. Millet Tests its Qualities. How to Make a Hargrave Kite. Double and Triple Kite. How to Make Compound Kites. Kite String.

CHAPTER V - MALAY AND OTHER TAILLESS KITES

Malay Kites. Part of the Celebration. How to Make the Tailless Kite. The Woglom Kite—How it is Made. Mr. Eddy’s Kite. How It is Made. Seven Kites in Tandem. How to Make Wing and Wing. To Cover and Paint it. Tail and Belly Bands. To Make a “Dancing Bear.” Try a “Tandem,” The Best Tandem Arrangement. Tailless Kites the Best. A Strange Country and the Home of a Strange Kite. Cannibal Kites How to Make a Cannibal Kite. Kite Covering. How to Cover the Cannibal. The Belly Band. A Chinese Butterfly Kite. The McAdie-Hammon California Barrel Kite.

CHAPTER VI - AËRIAL FISH AND DRAGONS

Paper Dragon or Fish for Kite Strings. Pennants Comical Figures. A Live-Man Kite.

CHAPTER VII - HOOPS AND WHEELS

A Reminiscence. Wheels Tin-Can Cover.

CHAPTER VIII - HOW TO MAKE THE SUCKER

How to Use the Sucker. A Live Sucker for Turtles.

CHAPTER IX - UP IN THE AIR ON STILTS

Tom’s Wooden Legs. Hand Stilts. A Short-Lived Triumph. The Japs Use Stilts. Tattooed Stilt-Walkers. Anti-Gadabouts. Shepherds on Stilts. Best for the Boys. Trick Stilt-Walking. Skating on Stilts. Ocuya, or Giant Dance. New Woman on Stilts. Tomato-Can Stilts. Lath-Stilts.

CHAPTER X - BAIT, LIVE AND DEAD

The Work which Angle-Worms Do. How to Collect Angle-Worms Different Varieties. How to Keep Angle-Worms Healthy and Well. How to Bring the Worms Out of their Holes. Hellgramites, Bogerts, Hojack, Dobsons, or Clippers. Another Adventure. Fishing for Hojacks with a Net. The Time when Bogerts are Best. How to Keep Dobsons or Clippers Alive. White Grub-Worms. Gentles, or Young Blue-Bottle Flies How to Keep the Trout Bait. Katydids Black Crickets. Grasshoppers How to Make a Grasshopper Box. “Lampers.” Habits of the Lamprey. How to Catch Lampreys. How to Keep Lampreys. Frogs How to Bait a Live Frog. How to Catch Frogs. Red Flannel Frog-bait. Three Hooks How to Keep Frogs. Live Minnows. How to Catch Minnows. To Construct a Serviceable Minnow-bucket How to Catch Minnows in Ponds, Lakes, or Deep Streams. How to Keep Minnows Alive. Crawfish How to Keep Crawfish Alive. Miscellaneous Bait. Looking-glass Bait. Bottom Bait—Bran and Bread. Dead Bait.—Meat. How to Pick Up a Live Eel. How to Skin Him. Eel-tail Bait. How to Keep Eels for Bait. Skittering. How to Preserve Dead Frogs or Minnows, Other Bait.

CHAPTER XI - COMMON-SENSE PRECAUTIONS IN FISHING

Nature as a Teacher. Out of Sight of the Pool. Effect of Being Seen. Trolling with a Spoon. A Word about Fly-fishing.

Summer

CHAPTER XII - AQUATIC SPORTS

Boating Clothes. How to Make a Bathing-suit. Sunburn Clothes for Canoeing. Stick to Your Boat. Life-preservers.

CHAPTER XIII - THE LAND-LUBBER’S CHAPTER

Red and Green Lights. Parts of a Sail. How to Steer a Boat. How to Sail a Boat. To Sail Close-Hauled. In a Thunder-Storm. What to Do. To Reef Without Lowering Sail. The Reef or Square Knot To Shake Out a Reef, Lights for Canoe. Some Do Nots.

CHAPTER XIV - RIGS OF ALL KINDS FOR SMALL BOATS

The Cat. The Sloop, Racing Sloops. Jib and Mainsail. Schooner Rig, The Balance Lug The Standing Lug Leg-of-Mutton Sail. The Buckeye, Sliding Gunter. Sharpies. The Sprit Leg-of-Mutton Sail The Dandy Jigger, or Mizzen Rig, The Lateen Rig The Ship.

CHAPTER XV - A “ROUGH AND READY” BOAT

The Stern-Piece. Use Rope for Binding. Planing the Bottom. The Deck. Ready for the Water. How to Make the Sail. How to Reef Her.

CHAPTER XVI - A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL

The Deck. The Sail. The Keelig. A Home-Made Catamaran. A Trap-Door or Hatch, The Rudder and Mast Steering Apparatus. A Tom Thumb Catamaran Danger of False Pride.

CHAPTER XVII - SINGLE SHELLS AND UMBRELLA CANOES

Checks or Cracks The Cause of Upsets. The Delights of a Shell. Stand Upright in a Shell, How to Land Where there is no Float. How to Embark Where there is no Float. Ozias Dodge’s Umbrella Canoe. How the Canoe was Built. Will Last for Years,

CHAPTER XVIII - HINTS FOR COLLECTORS

Practical Value of the Study of Insects. The Popular Classification. The Life of Caterpillars. Not Ready to Fly. Important Differences. Drying Better than Alcohol. Common-Sense Needed. How to Make a Cabinet. Useful Occupation.

CHAPTER XIX - HONEY-BEE MESSENGERS

The Box of Bees How to Make the Message. How to Handle the Bees. How to Write the Message. How to Make Your Key. Bee Stings and How to Avoid Them. Experience is a Good School. A Bee’s Stinger.

CHAPTER XX - A “ZOO”

Strange Birds on the City Housetops. Material Easy to Get. You Must Be a Carpenter. Splendid for a Yard, too.

CHAPTER XXI - CHOOSING UP AND “IT”

“Last One Over is ‘It!’” Short Straw. “Handy, Dandy, Riderly, Ro.” “Whole Fist or Four Fingers?” “Odd or Even?” “Heads or Trails?” “Wet or Dry?”

CHAPTER XXII - COUNTING OUT RHYMES

How to Count Out. A Counting Verse. An American Versiern of an Ancient Verse. Some Good Rhymes. A Quaint One from Georgia Rhymes of Different Nationalities. Antiquity of the Rhymes.

CHAPTER XXIII - IN THE WATER

How to Build a Swimming Master. One of the Good Swimmers Ready for the Novice. In Case of Fright. Hints for the Beginner. The Frog Kicking. The Breast Stroke. How to Make the Breast Stroke. The Grape-Vine Cable. The Suspension Bridge. The Chump’s Raft. Water Bladder. Tub Races. Springing Boards. How to Set up a Springing Board. Back Somersaults.

CHAPTER XXIV - GAMES OF TAG

Home. King’s X. Last Tag. Iron Tag, Wood Tag, Stone Tag, and Cross Tag. Cross Tag. Korungattam or Monkey Tag. Old Bloody Tom, Black Tom, or “Pull Away!” Prisoner’s Base. The Den of Wild Beasts—A Jungle Game. Dixie’s Land, or Yank and Johnny Reb. Tommy Tiddler’s Land. Cow-boys, or Cattle Rustling. “Lil ! Lil ! Over the Hill!” Wolf and Sheep. “What Time do You Dine?” or, The Brown-eared Wolf. The Red Ogre. The American Game of Three. Fox and Geese Modernized. Bull in the Ring.

CHAPTER XXV - I SPY

As Played in the Evening. Freeings. Hunkety : A Long Island I Spy, with a Wicket. Kick the Wicket.

CHAPTER XXVI - LEAP-FROG.

How to Play Leap-frog. “Giving a Back.” Foot - an’- Half, or Foot and One-Half. Foot-an’-Half, with a Leader and a Foot-an’-Half. Par Spanish Fly. “Torchlight!” “Hats on Deck !” “Hats Full of Water!” “Hats in the Water!” Effect of Bad Names. Dick’s Hat-band.

CHAPTER XXVII - VARIOUS SPORTS FOR HOT DAYS

“Jack’s Alive!” Spirit Tortoise and Dead Turtles. Jack and the Candles. Choosing the Master. Now Jack’s Duty Bowlder On ; or, Duck on a Rock. How the Game is Played. Nine- and Ten-Pins. Skittles Bowls British Skittles. Skittles in China and Persia. Brick Skittles. Fours Dutch Pins.

CHAPTER XXVIII - TIP-CAT

The Cat English Cat. Country Cat. American Cat. If he Misses

CHAPTER XXIX - GAMES OF BALL

Town-Ball. The Ball The Bat The Corners The Giver The Batter The Catcher The Fielders When Out. One or Two Old Cat, Striking Out, or Feeder. House-ball. Hand Up. Ballie Callie. Crackabout Over the Barn, House Over or Haley Over. Stool-ball Corner-ball. Black Ball. Rolly Poly Hat Ball

CHAPTER XXX - MUMBLY PEG, HOP-SCOTCH, AND JACK STONES

“Root! Root!” The Feats Hop-Scotch. The Hop-Scotch Court The Potsherd. The Game. Grounds Out. Hop-Scotch on Stilts. Jack Stones. First Jack. Ones. Twos. Threes ; Fours. Drive the Horses in their Stalls. Drive the Horses Out of their Stalls. Jumping the Hurdles. Base-ball. Cats in the Well. Sending the People to Church.

CHAPTER XXXI - PRACTICAL HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS

Baggage How to Carry Photographic Outfit on a Wheel. How to Rig the American Boy Naturalist’s Wheel. Add the Straps and Buttons. As to Punctures. How to Stop a Puncture with Chewing-Gum, How to Rig a Jury Handle-Bar. A Rope Tire How to Make a Cleaning and Repairing Rack. How to Make a Bicycle Stand. A Night Parade.

Autumn

CHAPTER XXXII - POINTS ON CAMPING OUT

Building a Fire Without Matches. Things Worth Remembering. A Birch-bark Torch. A Sleeping Bag The Famous Diamond Hitch. The Aparejo. How the Trick is Done. To Throw the Diamond Hitch. How to Make Your Own Cinch. Cooking Utensils for Camp. Food.

CHAPTER XXXIII - THE BOYS’ BABY BALLISTA

The Shells. Blow-guns. Great Skill with a Blow-gun. To Make the Target. Blow-gun Parachutes. La Riata—The Lariat. How the Raw-hide Lariat is Made. How to Make a Boy’s Lariat. How to Throw the Rope. The Lariat on Horseback.

CHAPTER XXXIV - “ TALLY-HO ” AND OTHER CRIES

Wolf-hunting in England “Tallio, Hoix, Hark, Forward,” “Tally-ho.” War-cry of the Wild Tribes, “ The Rebel Yell.” “ Coo-ee !” “ Yaqui !” Small Boys’ Call. “ Whoo-ah !” “ Mee-ma Red Eye !” “ Oh !” “ Lil !” “ Track !” “ Way !” “ K-e-e Yoy ! Hoo ! Hoo !” Princeton. Yale Harvard. Cornell. Williams College Trinity College Wesleyan College Brown Colorado The Leland Stanford, Jr., Dartmouth Union College University of Illinois, Hanover. Westminster. Cornell, of Iowa, Amherst The Boston University Cumberland University Rutgers, The Rochester University University of Washington Hobart’s Cry Syracuse University The University of Pennsylvania

CHAPTER XXXV - INDIAN GAMES ADAPTED FOR BOYS

The Rules Players, The Game, The Score. The Umpire. Mandan Ring How to Make the Tchungkee. Leather Barbs. How to Play Mandan Ring. How the Score is Made.

CHAPTER XXXVI - ON THE FOOT-BALL FIELD

An Old Game The Only Way The Game. The Points in the Game The Ball The Field. The Teams The Kicks In-Touch. A Fair Catch. The Heel-mark Off Side. On Side Out of Bounds Place-kicking. The Formation The Toss-up. Lining Up. The Scrimmage. A Snap-back

CHAPTER XXXVII - GOLF, HOCKEY, AND SHINNY

A Simple Game. The Links. The Teeing-ground, Tee The Holes The Golf Clubs The Ball Hazards A Bunker Expert Players Shinny. The Game Itself. Hockey

Winter

CHAPTER XXXVIII - TURTLE HUNTING

Hooking Turtles. Terrapin Hunting.

CHAPTER XXXIX - ON THE ICE

Little Danger. Keep Your Hands Out of Your Pockets. When to Begin. The Old Wooden Skate. Cutting a Circle. The Backward Circle. To Skate Backwards. The Spread Eagle How to Perform the Feat. The Spread Eagle Backwards The Bull Frog. How the Bull Frogs Jump. A Spread-Eagle Circle, The Grapevine Garland. Outside Edge, Air-Holes. “Follow the Leader,” or “I Conquer,” The Tickly-Bender, or Running Tommie.

CHAPTER XL - STUNNING MUSK-RATS AND FISH

A Hard Blow Stunning Cat-fish. Stunning “ Suckers. ” A Resounding Blow Caution to Beginners. A “ Buster ”

CHAPTER XLI - SNOW-BALL BATTLE AND SNOW TAG

Rome and Carthage. Snow Tag. How to Play the Game.

CHAPTER XLII - THE “ GET-THERE ” AND DOUBLE-RUNNERS

The Runners, The Double-Runner, or Bob Sled, How to Build a Safety Double-Runner. King-pin The Reach-Board The Back Sled, The Automatic Brake. Safety Reins.

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