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