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334 Woodcraft Manual for Girls realized by shaping the outline with file or knife. The inner lines are merely scratched on the surface. In general, one should avoid changing the main outline of the spoon handle or cutting it enough to weaken it. Always rather, adapi the animal to fill the desired space. ' There are several purposes the spoon can answer: First, as a K Owl spoon in camp, especially when prizes are offered to the camp that makes most of Us own equipment; next, as a salable article- third, as an exhibition article when it is desired to get up a fine exhibit of handicraft products illustrating camp life. Bird Boxes or Houses A good line of winter work is making bird boxes to have them ready for the spring birds. Two styles of bird houses are in vogue; one a miniature house on a pole, the other is an artificial hollow limb in a tree. First— the miniature cabin or house on a pole This is veiy good for martins, swallows, etc.. and popular with most birds, because it is safest from cats and squirrels. But most of us consider it far from ornamental. To make one, take any wooden box about six inches square put a wooden roof on it (a in Cut), then bore a hole in the middle