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| PREFATORY NOTE | 5 |
SECTION I.
Gymnastics, Indian Clubs, Dumbbells, and Juggling with Balls. |
| CHAPTER I.—Gymnastics. By a Member of the London Athletic Club. |
| I.— | Preliminary Hints as to Dress, Diet, and Exercises without Apparatus | 19 |
| II.— | Exercises without Apparatus | 20 |
| Leg Movements | 21 |
| III.— | Exercises with Apparatus | 21 |
| The Horizontal Bar | 22 |
| Hanging on the Bar and the Walk | 22 |
| Breasting the Bar | 23 |
| The Short Circle | 23 |
| Getting on to the Bar | 24 |
| The Leg Swing (Backwards) | 24 |
| To Sit on the Bar | 25 |
| Sit Swing (Backward) | 26 |
| Hanging by the Legs | 27 |
| The Clear Circle | 27 |
| The Muscle Grind | 28 |
| Hanging by the Toes | 28 |
| The Hock Swing | 28 |
| The Upstart | 29 |
| The Slow Pull-up | 29 |
| Horizontal (Back and Front) | 30 |
| The Splits | 30 |
| The Long Swing | 30 |
| Combinations | 31 |
| The Parallel Bars | 31 |
| Exercises | 32 |
| Vaulting Horse | 35 |
| Leg Spring | 36 |
| Horse Jumping | 37 |
| Saddle Vaulting | 37 |
| Flying over the Horse | 38 |
| The Hand-rings or Stirrups | 39 |
| Climbing | 41 |
| The Ladder | | IV.— | Revolving Slides for the Magic Lantern, without Rack-work. By F. Chasemore | 245 |
| V.— | Screen Frame for the Magic Lantern. By Frank Chasemore | 247 |
| VI.— | Magic Lantern for Opaque Slides. By W. J. Gordon | 250 |
| CHAPTER XXI.—How to make an Aphengescope, or Apparatus for exhibiting Photographs, Opaque Pictures, and Living Insects in the Magic Lantern. By Frank Chasemore | 252 |
| CHAPTER XXII.—Ingenious Adaptations for the Lantern. By W. J. Gordon | |
| I.— | Chromatropes and Paper Fireworks | 257 |
| II.— | The Lantern and the Kaleidoscope | 259 |
| III.— | The Lantern Praxinoscope | 260 |
SECTION V.
How to Build Boats, Punts, Canoes, etc. |
| CHAPTER XXIII.—The Building of the Swallow; or, How to Make a Boat. By E. Henry Davies, C.E. | 265 |
| CHAPTER XXIV.—How to Make a Canvas Canoe. By E. T. Littlewood, M.A. | 273 |
| CHAPTER XXV.—Canadian, Indian, Birch-Bark and other Light Canoes. By C. Stansfeld-Hicks. | |
| I.— | Canadian and Birch-Bark Canoes | 279 |
| II.— | Paper and other Typical Canoes | 283 |
| CHAPTER XXVI.—How to Build a Punt. By the Rev. Harry Jones, M.A. | 287 |
| CHAPTER XXVII.—Rafts and Catamarans, and How to Make them. By W. J. Gordon and W. W. L. Alden | 291 |
SECTION VI.
Pleasant and Profitable Occupations for Spare Hours. |
| CHAPTER XXVIII.—Practical Hints on Taxidermy. By Lieut.-Colonel Cuthell | |
| I.— | Catching and Setting Butterflies | 299 |
| II.— | How to Cure and Set up a Bird’s Skin | 302 |
| III.— | On Preserving the Skins and Heads of Animals | 305 |
| CHAPTER XXIX.—Hints on Polishing Horn, Bone, Shells, Stones, Etc. By Gordon Stables, C.M., M.D., R.N. | 308 |
| CHAPTER XXX.—British Pebbles. By the Rev. A. N. Malan, M.A., F.G.S. | |
| I.— | The Pebbles and How to Find them | 314 |
| II.— | The Lapidary’s Bench | 320 |
| III.— | How to Polish a Pebble | 322 |
| IV.— | How to Cut a Pebble | 325 |
| A Postscript | 329 |
| CHAPTER XXXI.—Graphs and Graph-making. By Theodore Wood | 330 |
| CHAPTER XXXII.—Cryptograph, or Cipher. By a Naval Surgeon | 333 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII.—Hammock-making and Netting. | |
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