FOOTNOTES:

[A] Cicada, commonly known among children as the locust.

[B] Cannel coal is the best to use, for it is hard, will take a high polish like jet, and can be carved with a pen-knife.

[C] Dishes.

[D] For this work the staple-tacks used for tacking down matting will be found very convenient.

[E] The material for this chapter is from an article written by Professor Frank Beard for Harper’s Young People. By permission of Harper & Brothers.

[F] Of course we all know that our Pilgrim fathers did not have the daily papers, but this fact makes it the more absurd.

[G] If the uprights seem to need it, brace them with cross-sticks in place of wire.