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Boxville dolls on Sunday go
To this Boxville Church, just so!
Two by two, as couples should,
Boxville dolls are _always_ good!
Little Boxville, as you see,
Is as good as it can be:
Little girls and little boys,
Learn this text from Boxville toys!
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THE BOXVILLE RAILWAY STATION
=Material Required for Making a Boxville Railway Station=: one shoe-box
and four shoe-box covers, one small box about four inches square and
without a cover, the shallow covers of two small boxes three inches
long, two long pencils, and a small square of waxed paper.
Boxville’s Railway Station is a real railway station. It is not a tin
thing such as you buy ready-made in a toy shop. Boxville Station has a
waiting-room with a real ticket booth and benches. You can make just the
same kind of little station as you see in this picture. It is easy to
make.
The building itself, you see, is the lower half of a shoe-box placed
upon its side. The platform is made of two shoe-box covers placed end to
end upon the floor, and the roof of the station is one shoe-box cover.
The other shoe-box cover is the roof of the platform, and this is
supported by two long lead-pencils.
Do you want to make a Boxville Station? To begin, you must make two
doors and a window on the part of your box that is the front of the
station.
About an inch and a half from either end of your box, mark a door space
four inches high and two inches wide. Use a pencil and ruler for the
work, so that it will be even. Half-way between the door spaces you have
drawn, mark off an oblong window space two inches high and three inches
wide. Now, you can take your scissors and cut the doors in the box. (To
cut doors, see Diagram Two, _A_, page 167.) Cut the top line of each
door space. Cut the bottom line also. The doors must open toward each
other, so cut each door space down the side next to the window space.
Push each little door inward.
Next, cut out the window space. Cut it around on all four sides, and
keep to the line you have drawn with pencil. (To cut window, see Diagram
One, _A_, page 166.) When you have finished this, take a piece of the
waxed paper you have and paste it inside the station building over the
window space to make window-glass. The waxed paper should be cut a bit
longer and wider than the opening of the window. You can measure it by
the cardboard piece you cut from the box.
If you wish, you may color the doors of your station building green or
brown. Use whatever colors you have, but if you use your water-colors,
keep the work as dry as you can. If you do not, the doors will not be
straight. They will curl.
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