BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

MAKING A TOY WELL. You can make this working toy from fretwood and odd pieces of stripwood. Cut' the uprights A, A, and framework for the roof from strip wood half an inch wide and a quarter of an inch thick. With your chisel, bevel'the top ends of the uprights to right angles, as shown, and cut a slot B in each, one eighth of an inch deep. Now cut the parts C, C, and, after bevelling the lower ends at an angle of forty-five degrees, glue and nail each pair together at the top as shown. Cut two pieces D to the required length, place one piece in the slot B in one of the uprights, and mark where the part; D crosses the parts C, C. After cutting slots one-eighth-of-an-inch deep, glue .and nail the parts together; The base of the well, cut from a piece of fretwood, has a rectangular hole in the middle as shown at E. Round the edge of this hole a coping F is glued and nailed. Make the coping from strips of fretwood one-and-a-quarter inches wide, so that,'when glued and nailed together, the inside measurement is the same as the hole E.

For the windlass G, which is four inches long, use a piece of three-quar-ter-inch dowel rod and make a hole in one end to take a nail, and a hole in the other end to receive the pointed end of a piece of bent iron wire which forms the handle, as shown at H. File the end

of the handle K to a point so that it will push easily into the hole in the windlass. Another small hole must be made in each upright at a distance of one inch below the slot A. - Glue and nail the uprights to the coping F, and fix the windlass in position by the handle in one end, and the nail in. the other. For the winding rope use a’ piece of thin string, and tie one end to a small wire hook which carries the bucket. For the roof, take a piece of one-six-teenth-inch plywood, or stiff cardboard, ten and a half inches long and five and a quarter inches wide. Cut it half through across the middle, bend it “to fit over the sloping pieces C, C, and glue it in place. The Hut Carpenter. LANIMER DAY. THE STORY OF A MEDAL. The other day a butcher found a medal in a bullock. He gave it to a friend without any notion that it had a particular interest for him, and the friend cried out in surprise, “Why, this medal commemorates my wife’s coronation!” The inscription recorded'that Mary Steele was Lanimer Queen in 1908. Lanimer Day is a famous festival in Scotland. On that day in 1297 Wallace took Lanark, and it is said that his men carried birch branches like the soldiers who marched upon Macbeth when the prophecy of the witches came true and Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane. Six centuries have not changed it. On Lanimer Day a procession of people carrying birch branches marches round the boundaries, and a fair maid is chosen to be Lanimer Queen!® Wallace was betrayed by his countrymen and cruelly put to death by his foes,-but on Lanimer Day he triumphs anew. “DREAMS TO SELL.” He steals across the sunset sky In cloak of midnight blue; Just listen and you’ll hear his cry, He’s wondrous wares for you. “Sweet Dreams to sell! I’ve Dreams to sell, “Sweet Dreams for all! Who’ll buy ? “Come, buy a Dream, ’twill please you well,” Oh, hear the Pedlar’s cry. For gold he will'not sell his wares, That’s not the Pedlar’s style; •But all his treasure with you shares For just a friendly smile. So listen, listen, children all, Perhaps you’ll hear to-night The Dreamy-Pedlar’s magic call, “Come, buy my Dreams’ Delight!”

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