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Title: Things worth doing and how to do them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Beard, Lina Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, joint author
Subjects: Amusements Games
Publisher: New York, Scribner's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ld Indians withtheir wigwams, and let Columbus and his men land, while theIndians stand gazing at them in astonishment. 405 406 Things for Home, Gift Days and Fairs ■ /vjT\ /Hi /6/v \ 1 ° Po 0 ,ZIlap °°o0. / A 8E •A\ „... g Br- o \ »/> o0o\ »0l.ap3\ 1 1° / /Jlap0 uJ / ;B / LU /Jlap ° ° °_ i oo 1— US. s V CO S.•lap.M 5 / \ b i t f 1*1 A / . 1 la, rii * 0 M D VA / Bl Fig. 589.—The hull of the Santa Maria. Before we makethe little paper peo-ple, let us build Columbus Ship. This ship is to beas nearly like theSanta Maria, thereal ship in whichColumbus sailed, asis possible to makeof paper. Cut apiece of light- weightcardboard fifteenand three - fourthsinches long andseven and one-halfinches wide; on thisdraw the diagram ofthe boat (Fig. 589),making the greatestlengths of the dia-gram exactly as longand the greatestwidths as wide asthe cardboard. Findthe lengthwise cen-tre of the cardboard,which will be threeand three - fourthsinches from each
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Columbus Ship Made of Paper. Columbus and His Paper Ship 407 long side line, as the cardboard is seven and one-half incheswide. Draw a line along the centre from end to end, to guideyou in making the diagram of the boat; this central line willalso be the centre of your ship. Commence drawing the bot-tom A—A (Fig, 589) at a distance of two and one-fourth inchesfrom the end of the cardboard; the bottom must measure seveninches from its extreme front point A to the back line A, andtwo and three-eighths inches at its widest point from B to B.The point A of the bottom must come on the long central line,and the straight back line of the bottom A must be one andthree-fourths inches across. The length of the extension at the back of the boat from Cto D is three and one-half inches; the deck from D to E, threeinches. The greatest width of the deck, E, not including thetwo flaps, is two and three-fourth inches, and the narrowest partat the line D one inch. The sides of the boat are slashed an

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