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