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About This Book
A practical how-to manual aimed at boys, offering illustrated, step-by-step plans for backyard and outdoor projects ranging from wigwams, pet shelters, and garden structures to weather-vanes, kites, winter sleds and ice-boats, land-yachts, boats and catamarans, fishing tackle, water-wheels, and camping equipment. It includes instruction on knots, splices, traps, campcraft, and simple engines, emphasizing plain materials, tested techniques, and clear workmanship to develop mechanical skill, ingenuity, and self-reliance while producing useful and entertaining results.