Mister Box is a game. You can make a game like him. I will tell you how. You will need an empty box about the size of a shoe-box. It should have a cover. Two or three players may play the game. Each will need an empty spool to play the game with. Each player may color his spool a different color. One may be blue; one may be red; and the third, if there are three players, may be green. Now, to make Mister Box. Place your box on end and glue the cover tight. Next, take your pencil and draw a big face on the back of the box. Make the mouth large and round. Cut out the cardboard inside the mouth to make a big round hole about four inches wide. You can color Mister Box with your crayons, if you like. His hair should be brown, and his eyes too. Now, to play the game, every player must stand, in turn, in the same place on the carpet or floor rug, four feet from the box. Measure four ruler lengths to get this. Each must try to get his spool into Mister Box. Toss the spool. No player may touch his spool till all have finished playing the round. The first one to get his spool into Mister Box six times wins. When I win a game at play, This is what I always say: “You will win another day!” If I do not win to-day, This is what I hope I’ll say: “I have had a splendid play!” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC BOX =Material Required to Make a Magic Box=: two small oblong boxes with covers that slide over an inner drawer. Both boxes must be about an inch and a half long. Both must be duplicates of each other. About two yards of light twine are needed. The magic box is truly a wonderful one. It will obey every command you give it—yes, it will! There is a secret that you will have to learn, but when you know this secret the little box will _have_ to do just as you bid it. The magic box is on a string. As it descends, you cry, “Halt!” The box stops at once. “Go on!” you cry. The box continues down the string. “Faster, faster!” The box fairly flies in its haste to get down to the floor! Wonderful! Wonderful! Now, let me tell you how to do it. (It is a trick, of course!) Find a small stick, round and smooth like a half of a toothpick. Take the sliding cover from one of your boxes, and fit inside the drawer, across the center of it, the piece of wood so that there is space under it and above it. Next, make a small hole at each end of the drawer of your box, and thread some string through both holes, letting the string pass _under_ the stick of wood in the drawer. (See Diagram Thirteen, _A_, page 187.) Place the sliding cover on the box and let the string pass through it at both ends. (See Diagram Thirteen, _B_.)