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1 86 The Book of Woodcraft FIRESIDE TRICK An Indian showed me this, though I have since seen it among whites! Put your hands together as in the drawing, palms also touching. The thumbs are you and your brother. You can separate easUy — like that. The first fingers are you and your father, you can separate not quite so easily — Hke that: The little fingers are you and your sister, you can separate, but that comes a little harder still — like that. The middle fingers are you and your mother, you can separate, but it is hard — see that. The ring fingers are you and your sweetheart, you cannot separate without everything else going first to pieces. THE LONE STAR TRICK A Texan showed me an interesting trick on the table. He took six wooden toothpicks, bent them sharply in the middle, and laid them down in the form shown in "A.'" "Now," he says, "when our people got possession of Texas, it was notliing but a -wilderness of cactus spines.