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Show BLOWPIPE AND A BALL. 1I Hero Is a very slmplo little toy that ou can mnko nnd have lots of fun with Tnko an ordinary tobacco plpo and stop the bowl with a tightly fitting cork. Tho plpo may bo either a wooden or n clay one, but It should bo now und clenn, and If the stem is clny. the end of It thnt goes Into jour mouth should bo waxed by heating heat-ing It and nibbing It on a lump of " 1 ! ,. 'Mmr; rfJSwV WXO I'll f" 'J lim Showing Construction and Use of Blowpipe. Bil beeswax or paralllno, as a now clay stum sticks to tho lips and sometimes tears off tho tender skin when It Is taken from tho mouth. Boro a small holo through tho cork, near one side. Just big enough to hold a straw. Tho struw should bo a little lit-tle longer than tho cork and at tho top It should be silt down nn Inch or so and tho pieces Rprcnd out In tho form of a funnel. Or you tuny itno n small glass tubo with a llttlo paper funnel pasted to tho top of It. If tho straw or tubo does not fit the hulo oxactly, a llttlo wa at the top will mako tho Joint airtight Now tako another cork cut It down to n round ball as big na n smnll murblo, "n mlggle," nnd plorco i'H It through the center with a long hair- ?fll pin from which you hnvo brokon oft 111 tho greater part of ono log. Tho 111 straight end should stick farther out ifl of tho ball than tho other, so that tho r lisH hooked end will bo higher and will J J stuy on top. Now In the other side 1 fll of tho largo cork nearest tho stem of iil tho pipe stick a long wlro, bent ovor - jil and nbovo nnd ending In n hook oxnet- ' '$ H ly over tho llttio funnel and throo or H H four Inches nbovo It. ' ;; Then drop tho cork ball into tho 1,1 H funnel, put the plpo to your lips nnd 5 ffHHH blow. ' ' ilnH Your breath rushing up tho llttlo I JlH tubo will lift tho light ball and koop 'MM It dancing In the air for a second or iHlH two. When It falls tho funnol cntrAes lIuH It nnd your breath sonds It up again. lJlLH Tho trick Is to maku tho hook at- I'lfll tachnd to tho ball catch on the hook tHH abovo fco that tho ball roraalns sua- ,1)11 pendod that Is all. - vlfH It takes patience and porsotoranco, llnl Lut It can bo dono, and, a3 I said bo- llt-u'iM fore, It la lots of fun trying U. ifir'iHH '11 |