INDEX
INDEX
- A
- Ancient mariners, 5
- Animals, kindness to, 33, 34
- Ape, evolution of, 234
- “Arab steed,” how to make an, 254
- Army, to make a pasteboard, 217
- Artificial water, 206
- Aviary, how to make a back-yard, 63
- Axe, tree-top club-house built with, 10
- Axles, car-wheel, 172
- B
- Bantam coops, 55
- Beard, Frank, 224
- Beard, Santa Claus’s, 249
- Bed, Daniel Boone cabin, 123;
- Lincoln, 124
- Binders, to make water club-house foundation, 101
- Birds, 63
- Bonbon box, the cabbage, 265
- Buffalo, to make a herd of, 276
- Bugles, wooden, 141
- Building material, house-boat, 150
- Bumpers, house-boat, 155
- Bunks, house-boat, 164
- Burgoo, Kentucky, 107;
- ingredients of a, 109;
- how to cook a, 109
- Burgoo master, 108, 109
- Bridge of matches, 206
- Bridle, to make a, 274
- C
- Cabin, how to build and furnish a Daniel Boone, 116;
- lumber for, 118;
- ground plan of 6 × 10, 119
- Cabin, house-boat, 157;
- street-car used as, 168
- Cage, to make a galvanized-wire netting, 39;
- receiving, 46
- Cake, the “Fake,” 266, 268
- Camera, hunting with the, 20
- Camp dress, women’s, 133
- Camping out. See Daniel Boone cabin, 116
- Carp, 52
- Carpet tacks as blow-gun darts, 264
- Cars, back-yard switchback, 170
- Catfish, 52
- Centre-piece, house-boat, 151
- Chalk talk, how to give a, 222
- Chestnut wood for foundation posts, 75
- Chickens, coops for, 54;
- need of shelter for, 54;
- material for coop, 56
- Chimney, Daniel Boone cabin, 130;
- stick, 131;
- Santa Claus’s, 238
- Chipmonks, 19;
- how to trap, 26;
- food for, 26;
- wire cage for, 37
- Circus, a home-made, 191;
- in the attic, 253
- Clam-bake, the Rhode Island, 107
- Clams, fresh-water, in confinement, 53
- Club-house, water, 97
- Club-house, underground, 89
- Club-house, a tree-top, 3;
- underground, 4;
- grape-vine approach to, 7;
- a two-tree, 9;
- selection of trees for, 10;
- how to build, 10;
- foundation of, 14;
- the vine-tree, 16;
- three- and four-tree foundation, 18
- Coat, Santa Claus, 245
- Cobblestones for bracing water club-house cribs, 102
- “Collar,” back-yard workshop, 80
- Collins, Captain Bob, 141, 142
- Cowboy, to make a, 273
- Crank, panorama, 284
- Crawfish, 52
- Creepers, nests for, 65
- Cribs, water club-house foundation, 100, 102
- Crusoe clubs, 97
- Crusoe raft, 150
- D
- Dace, 52
- Daniel Boone cabin, how to build and furnish a, 116;
- lumber for, 118
- Darts, carpet-tacks as blow-gun, 264
- Deck, house-boat, 160
- Door, back-yard workshop, 82;
- underground club-house, 89, 95;
- back-yard zoo, 4;
- pigeon and bantam coop, 58;
- Daniel Boone cabin, 121, 125, 129
- Drawing-board, chalk-talk, 225
- Drinking-troughs for pigeons and bantams, 61
- E
- Enihan. See Lawn hab-enihan, 114
- F
- Feather-duster as a tail, 254
- Fireplace, Daniel Boone cabin, 122, 128, 130;
- Santa Claus, 237, 243
- First Gentleman. See Pitch-peg-pin pitching, 112
- First Lady. See Pitch-peg-pin pitching, 112
- Fish, food for, 53
- Fish-pond, a back-yard, 48;
- how to stock, 52
- Flat-boatman’s horn, 139
- Flooring, house-boat, 160
- Floor-joists, Daniel Boone cabin, 120
- Floor-supports, Daniel Boone cabin, 120
- Flower-pots, bird-nests in, 68
- Flying-cage for pigeons, 62
- Flying-squirrel, trapping, 21, 23
- Footlights, panorama stage, 282
- Foundation, tree-top club-house, 9, 14, 18;
- back-yard workshop, 76;
- water club-house, 97, 99, 101;
- Daniel Boone cabin, 120
- Foxes, wire cage for, 37;
- anecdote of, 38
- Frame, tree-top club-house, 14;
- underground club-house, 92
- Frogs, house for, 41;
- varieties of, 42;
- market for, 44;
- the Anderson, 45
- G
- Games with toothpicks and matches, 201
- Gnawers, 21;
- cages for, 37
- Goldfish, 52
- Gourds, martin nests in, 66
- Grape basket, wren nests in, 66
- Grandmother’s reticule, 218
- H
- Hab. See Lawn hab-enihan, 114
- Hanging-bars, 194
- Hatch, house-boat, 160
- Horn, flat-boatman’s, 139;
- Captain Bob Collins’s, 142;
- Wabash, 143;
- how to make a Wabash, 143;
- to make a Captain Bob Collins’s, 142
- House, how to make a pasteboard, 212
- House-boat, canvas-cabined, 166
- House-boat, how to build the American boy’s, 146;
- cost of, 167 168
- I
- Indian, to make an, 273
- Island, artificial, 104
- J
- Jack-fagots, 110
- “Joggling board,” 105
- Johnson, Colonel Richard, 141
- K
- Kentucky burgoo, 107
- L
- Lamps for Daniel Boone cabin, 127
- Lawn hab-enihan, 114
- Lean-to, how to make a, 136
- Level, a home-made, 74
- Lizards, house for, 41, 46
- Lockers, house-boat, 158, 164
- Log house, how to build a, 116
- Log-rolling, 121
- Lumber for underground club-house, 92;
- for Daniel Boone cabin, 118
- M
- Machine shop, 83, 85
- Making up, 262
- Manicora, how to make the, 257
- Matches, good games with, 201;
- a bridge of, 206
- Mice, learning, 25;
- habits of, 27;
- white-footed, 24;
- as pets, 25;
- food for, 26
- Mink, habits of, 31;
- how to trap, 31;
- author’s anecdote of, 32
- Moa, how to make the, 257
- Motion, how to suggest, 230
- Musk-rats, Captain John Smith’s description of, 30;
- how to trap, 31;
- in captivity, 31;
- cage for, 37
- Mussels, 53
- N
- Nails, frame of tree-top club-house fastened with, 12
- Nests, pigeon and bantam, 60;
- birds’-nests in Washington’s coat, 63;
- the speaking-horn, 63;
- woodpecker, 64;
- martin, 66;
- wren, 66;
- tin-can, 68
- O
- Oilcloth for underground club-house roof, 94
- Oiled paper for glass, Daniel Boone cabin windows, 127
- Oil-stove, 73
- Old Dan Tucker, 110, 111, 112
- P
- Paddles, how to make, 193
- Panorama box, how to make, 283
- Panorama show, a, 218
- Passageway, underground club-house, 93
- Pattern, how to reproduce, for Wild West show, 270
- Peepers, how to capture, 45
- Pennsylvania pond stew, 107
- Pheasants, cage for, 37
- Picnic, how to have fun at a, 105
- Picnic box, 106
- Pigeons, lofts for, 54;
- material needed in making, 56;
- nests for, 60;
- drinking-troughs for, 61
- Pitch-peg-pin pitching, 112
- Plumb, a home-made, 75
- Prairie chickens, cage for, 37
- Purlins, back-yard workshop, 80
- Q
- Quail, wire cage for, 37
- R
- Rabbits, cage for, 37
- Rafters of tree-top club-house, 14;
- back-yard workshop, 79;
- underground club-house, 94;
- house-boat, 160
- Rat, 21;
- short-tailed meadow, 23, 26;
- wire cage for, 37
- Receiving-cage, 21
- Receiving-tank, bath-tub as, 191
- Reins, Arab steed, 256
- Reptiles, house for, 41
- Ribs, house-boat, 156, 157;
- Arab steed, 255
- Ridge-plank, how to make a, 79
- Ring-master, dress of, 259
- River people, 147
- River-rats, 5
- Robinson Crusoe, 4
- Rock bass, 52
- Rodents, 21;
- cages for, 37
- Rollers, panorama, 284
- Roof, tree-top club-house, 14;
- underground club-house, 92, 94;
- Daniel Boone cabin, 123;
- house-boat, 162
- Roost, pigeon and bantam, 60
- Rowlocks, house-boat, 163
- Rudder, house-boat, 162
- Ruffed grouse, cage for, 37
- Runway, doors for, 41
- S
- Santa Claus, costume for, 245;
- how to make two boys into one, 248
- Santa Claus fireplace, how to make a, 237
- Sap-suckers, nests for, 65
- Settlement, a pioneer, 208
- Shack, how to make a, 135
- Shanty, cost of a, 136
- Show, a Wild West, 270;
- a panorama, 278
- Show-bills, panorama, 286
- Shutters for pigeon and bantam coops, 59
- Sleigh, how to make a pasteboard, 211
- Sleigh, Santa Claus’s, 250
- Slipperies, 182;
- war-time, 182
- Smudge, capturing flying-squirrels with a, 22
- Snakes, house for, 41;
- poisonous, 42;
- varieties of, 42;
- superstitions about, 43
- Soldiers, to make pasteboard, 215
- Speaking-horn, birds’-nests in, 63
- Squirrel, cage for, 37
- Stairs, water club-house, 103
- Stability, emblem of, 229
- Stage, panorama, 282
- Stag-party, a boys’, 263
- Stars, to cut five- and six-pointed stars with one clip, 220
- Starting platform, switchback railway, 173
- Stool, cabin, 131
- Street-car cabin, house-boat with, 168
- Struts in tree-top club-house, 18
- Sunfish, 52
- Supplies, camp, 133
- St. Nicholas, our American, 243
- Swallows, 70, 71
- Swiss Family Robinson, 4
- Switchback, a back-yard, 170
- T
- Table, log cabin, 131;
- supplies for, 137
- Tank, back-yard fish-pond, 48, 49
- Tar used on underground club-house roof, 94
- Tents, cost of, 136
- Ticket-chopper’s box, 180
- Toads, house for, 41;
- superstitions about, 43, 44
- Toboggan room, 186
- Toboggan slide, how to build a, 182;
- tropical, 184
- Tools for building tree-top club house, 10;
- for making back-yard zoo, 35;
- for making back-yard fish-pond, 49;
- for back-yard workshop, 73;
- for making water club-house, 98;
- care of, 86
- Tool-rack, 86, 88
- Toothpicks, good games with, 201
- Track, switchback railway, 178
- Trap, mouse, 24, 25;
- the wooden box, 28;
- the tin-can, 29;
- a figure-4, 30
- Trapping, 19
- Tree-top club-house, 3
- Turnpike zoo, 106
- Turtles, house for, 41
- U
- Underground club-house, 89
- V
- Ventilation, underground club-house, 95, 96
- Virginia soup, 107
- W
- Wabash horn, 143
- Walls, tree-top club-house, 14
- Washington, birds’-nests in coat of, 63
- Water-wheel, how to make a, 192
- Wheels, switchback car, 170
- Whittling, prevalence of, 139
- Wig, Santa Claus’s, 249
- Wild West show, 270
- Windlass, panorama, 284
- Window, back-yard workshop, 82;
- Daniel Boone cabin, 121
- Wire cloth, 36
- Wire, galvanized iron, for back-yard zoo, 36;
- for pigeon loft and bantam coop, 58
- Wire netting, 36
- Woodchucks, 19;
- as pets, 27;
- how to trap, 27;
- habits of, 30;
- cage for, 37
- Woodpeckers, nests for, 65
- Workshop, a boy’s back-yard, 72;
- how to build, 77
- Wren, nest for, 66
- Z
- Zoo, a back-yard, 33