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THE BOY CRAFTSMAN
HANDICRAFT BOOKS
BY
A. NEELY HALL
8vo. Cloth. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs
and working drawings by the author
and Norman P. Hall
THE BOY CRAFTSMAN
HANDICRAFT FOR HANDY BOYS (Revised Edition)
THE HANDY BOY (Revised Edition)
HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
HANDICRAFT FOR HANDY GIRLS
CARPENTRY AND MECHANICS FOR BOYS
HOME-MADE GAMES AND GAME EQUIPMENT
(Revised Edition)
OUTDOOR BOY CRAFTSMEN
BIG BOOK OF BOYS' HOBBIES
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK
A Boy's Workshop.
THE BOY
CRAFTSMAN
Practical and Profitable Ideas
for a Boy's Leisure Hours
BY
A. Neely Hall
With more than four hundred illustrations
by the author and Norman P. Hall
BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
Copyright, 1905, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company.
Published, August, 1905.
All rights reserved.
The Boy Craftsman.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Work hard—play hard.
—Theodore Roosevelt.
NOTE TO THE READER
The boy of to-day is ever on the lookout for new ideas which can beadopted for his work and recreation, schemes which are practical andwhich are thoroughly up-to-date. They must be helpful in suggesting waysof earning money, as well as entertaining, for what boy of the presentday does not feel the need of such suggestions to aid him in raising thefunds necessary to carry on his work?
In none of the books published on boy's handicraft has the questionentered into consideration as to how he is to obtain the means withwhich to buy such materials and apparatus as the work requires. A boyshould not expect to draw upon his father's purse for everything hisfancy desires. It is important that he learn to earn his spending money,for in doing so he becomes independent and more careful as to how heinvests it. Having had the experience of working, the average boy learnsto so appreciate the value of hard-earned money that it is prettycertain he will spend it only for something with which he can earn moreor which will prove useful to him in his work and play.
"The Boy Craft