Make reins of string and run the string through a hole punched in the horse’s mouth--where the bit should be--and through a hole punched in the soldier’s hand. Put the cavalryman’s feet in the paste-board stirrups and you have Fig. 190--a bold soldier man, ready for a parade, or to fight with the English or against them. In fact, so perfect a soldier and Such an Ideal Soldier is this pasteboard man, that he will never question your orders, but fight on any side you choose to put him, and when he is worn out in the service he will utter no complaint if he is buried in the waste-paper basket, or even used for the purpose of kindling the kitchen fire. Make an Army. If you are successful in making one soldier, with industry you may make a whole regiment of them, and then stand them in battle array and shoot them down with a pea-shooter. [Illustration: FIGS. 195-199.] Your conscience need not bother you in the least, if you slay a whole regiment, for the poor fellows won’t care a cent, and they will leave no widows and orphans behind to mourn for them. In fact, you can bring them all to life again, the next time you want a battle, by simply setting them upright upon their horses once more. It sometimes happens that boys tire of soldiers and their murderous weapons, although both the soldier and his arms be but harmless paper. At such a time the reader can put away his paper warriors and proclaim to his playmates that he is a wizard, and can Walk through the Centre of a Visiting Card. He may prove that this is no vain boast by folding the card, Fig. 192, across its centre (Fig. 193), and with scissors cutting slits where the lines are drawn on Fig. 193. When the card is unfolded it will be found to resemble Fig. 194, and may be stretched carefully until it can be passed over the head, down over the body to the feet; then as the self-proclaimed wizard steps out of the card he may truthfully say that he has walked through a visiting card. After this he may entertain his playmates by making a Grandmother’s Reticule of a square piece of paper (Fig. 195), which he folds at the dotted centre line (Fig. 196), and folds again across its centre (Fig. 197). The next fold is a diagonal one, from corner to corner (Fig. 198). With the scissors he cuts Fig. 198, as shown by the ruled lines on Fig. 199. [Illustration: FIG. 200.] Carefully unfolding the paper he puts a marble or some other weight in the centre, which stretches the paper to the form of a paper reticule, Fig. 200. Speaking of grandmothers reminds us of old times, when above the open grate fireplace the mantel and panelling was painted a sombre black. The boys then used to amuse themselves by folding pieces of paper in the form of Fig. 198, and then cutting “Any Old Thing”