A Seaside Amusement.

New Zealand Graphic, 6 April 1907, Page 40

A Seaside Amusement.

Have you ever tried drawing houses, etc., on the sands? I expect so. But have you made a clock face? It is great fun, and looks most imposing when finished. You must first of all collect a heap of little round pebbles, and this will take some time. When all is ready, choose a piece of smooth, firm sand, and draw two bic circles, one within the other. Then divide the circles into four equal parts, and begin putting in the Homan figures, in pebbles, beginning with the twelve to six, then the nine and three, and so on. The figures should be marked on the sand with a stick, before “pebbling” them. Draw in the hands, and put two little pebbles to imitate the winding-up holes of tlie clock, and your work is finished. People always find pleasure in looking at anything of this kind at the seaside, and if the hours of high or low tide are indicated each day by beans of movable hands, formed by sticks, a useful and novel feature is added to this ingenious idea.