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i86 The Book of Woodcraft FIRESIDE TRICK An Indian showed nic this, though I have since seen it among whites ! Put your hands together as in the drawing, palms also touching. The thum.bs are you and your brother. You can separate easily — like that. The first fingers are you and your father, you can separate not quite so easily — like that : The Httle 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 miiddle, and laid them down in the form shown in "A.'* "Now," he says, "when our people got possession of Texas, it was nothing but a wilderness of cactus spines.