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Things to Know and Do 331 it on as an ordinary button. This never breaks or fails. As the old plainsman who first showed me, said, "There's a button that'll be rij^t there when the coat's all wore away from be- hind it." Handicraft Stunts Let each Woodcrafter carve a fork and spoon out of wood, with her band totem on the handle. Make a needle case out of a fowl's leg or wing bone, thus: Clean and smooth about three inches of the bone, plug up one end with a soft wood plug, and make a wooden stopper for the other end. Then with the point of a knif. decorate the bone. The lines should be scratched in deeply and then have black paint rubbed into them. If no black paint is handy make a mixture of soot and pine gum, with a little grease, butter, or oil. Make a tackle box or ditty box 2x2x6 inches carved out of solid wood. Make peach-stone baskets, of a peach-stone shaped with a file. Turkey call. An interesting curio is the turkey call. Take a small cigar box and cut ofif the end as in the figure. Get a piece of slate about 2 x ,^ inches long, or, failing slate, take a flat piece of wood and rub it °11 with rosin. Draw the two curved edges of the box lirh !. up this one way, and it will make a wonderfully good in m of a turkey (all. A Chicken squawk. This is another call easily made. Take any small round tin lx)x— a condensed milk tin is good— and make a hole through the bottom and into thu put a cord. A