Produced by ellinora, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Notes: Captions marked with the symbols “++” were created by the Transcriber. Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); text that was bold by “equal” signs (=bold=). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Boxville.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE JOLLY BOOK OF BOXCRAFT BY PATTEN BEARD With Sixty-eight Photographic Illustrations By G. S. North from Models Made and Arranged by the Author and with Twenty-three Diagrams by E. D. Pattee [++ Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY All rights reserved [++ Illustration: FAS Co September, 1914] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO ALL LITTLE CHILDREN AND TO “NIMBLEFINGERS,” “HAPPY THOUGHT” AND “PLAY” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AUTHOR’S NOTE “The Jolly Book of Boxcraft” has been enlarged and rewritten from work started in May, 1909. This work was purchased by _St. Nicholas_, _Little Folks_, _Good Housekeeping_, _The Congregationalist and Christian World_, _The Designer_, _Holland’s Magazine_, _The Housekeeper_, _The Ladies’ Home Journal_, _The New York Herald_, and _The New York Tribune_. Thanks are due to them for the courtesy of using material which was included in their articles. The author feels that it is only right to acknowledge her indebtedness to the children themselves who have lent their toys and helped in many little ways of their own toward the making of this book. Special thanks are due to Elizabeth Hendricks, Raymon Guthrie, Henry Jarrett, Stanley Hoyt, and Wesley Meehan, playfellows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS