To add ramparts to the building, take the cover of your box and make a pencil mark upon its rim every half-inch all the way around. Cut sections from the rim, as marked, every other half-inch. Turn the box with its rim upward and glue it to the top of your box. (For making ramparts, see Diagram Three, page 172.) At the back of the fort, you may easily devise a sallyport by cutting the cardboard door shaped. (For cutting a door, see Diagram Two, _A_, page 167.) A toy cannon may be made with a small round hair-pint box by pasting it upon the side of a spool between the wheels of the spool. A thumb-tack pressed beneath one wheel of the cannon will keep it upright and prevent rolling. I painted my guns black. If you like, you may easily do this with water-color paints. An encampment of tents may be made from small white box covers cut through each long side rim up to the top of the cover and bent, to each side of the center downward. (See Diagram Three, _E_, page 171, for making a tent.) If you happen to have a penny flag, it will be just the very thing to wave over Fort Box. You can arrange your fort upon a sheet of crape paper and make streams and woods all about it. The streams will be strips of silver paper pasted onto the green crape paper. The woods will be bits of twigs pressed into the holes of spools so that the trees stand upright. Bushes are just bits of twigs that may be laid down flat. Rocks and mountains may be made from stones. I had a leaden soldier, His name was Tommie Tin! Oh, he was brave in battle, And always fought to win! I made him into general, And he is in command Of all my Boxville Army At Box Fort in Boxland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO BUILD A TOY CASTLE AND A FAIRYLAND HOUSE =Material Required to Make a Castle=: any box, either round or square—one at least six or seven inches deep is best. =Material Required to Make a Fairyland House=: an oblong box deep enough for door and windows to be cut in its sides, a few little crackers or “goodies”—possibly some gilt or silver paper in place of these. Have you ever played in fairyland? Well, if you have not been there, you can very well make a fairyland upon the play-room floor, and in it you may gather together all the people of your Red, and Blue, and Green, and Yellow Fairy Books. These people will be Knights, and Princesses, Witches, Goblins, Fairies. All are toys, and it is an easy matter to get them together—quite as easy as it is to make a fairyland castle. I will tell you how. First, you may like to build the castle, for that is all-important. There never yet was a fairyland without _that_!