Place a window under the roof in the point of the gable, if you like. The roof of the cottage is made by measuring, first, the size of the building you wish to cover. Measure this on your corrugated cardboard, and add three inches to its length and breadth. Fold the corrugated cardboard together to make a pointed roof. (See Diagram Three, _C_, page 170.) Glue this to the building, and the little shepherd’s hut is finished. You may make a landscape of mountains behind it, where the sheep may go to graze. These are blocks or boxes covered with crape paper. Do not use glue or paste in doing this. The paper is merely folded over them. A pretty stream may be made from an irregularly cut strip of silver paper. The woolly sheep love to drink at a stream, I am sure. You can see the lake I made for my landscape. It was a mirror. A rocky ledge on the mountain-side or by the lake is made with pretty pebbles such as you may find in the country. Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow; A little shepherd guarded it in sheepfold, don’t you know! It didn’t go to Boxville School, it grazed about in play Upon the green crape-paper field that Mary made one day. [Illustration: Sheepfold and Shepherd’s Cote. Corrugated cardboard is used for roof and fences.] [Illustration: The Bridge over Mirror Lake. It is made from a long shallow box with a cover.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUILDING A BOX BRIDGE =Material Required to Make a Box Bridge=: a long cardboard box with cover, a strip of cardboard about ten inches long. When you look at the picture of Box Bridge, you will easily see, I think, how it is made. It may be used in many ways for play. Your toy railway system may have a bridge as well as a freight station and tunnel. A box bridge may connect opposite shores of Silver Paper Lake, and the delivery wagon from Boxville’s General Store may jog happily over the bridge to deliver goods at Boxville Cottage. Guests from Hotel Bandbox may fish from the bridge. I am sure you will find many other things to play with it, so I will tell you how to make one, even though it does seem as if you _might_ almost make one without directions! Take the box that you wish to use for a bridge. Remove its cover. Turn the lower half of the box over so that the bottom of the box becomes top. Cut a semicircular piece from each long rim. This makes the long arch of the bridge. (See Diagram Four, _A_, page 173.) Next, take the box cover and turn it so that its top is next to the top of the bridge. The lengthwise rims of the box will be a railing for the roadway over it. Cut each end rim at the corner, and let these end rims be pasted each to a strip of cardboard cut to fit the width of the box, and join the bridge roadway to the road along the floor where you are playing. Each strip of cardboard glued to an end of the bridge may be about five inches long.