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Show ." i I Wood Carving in Black Forest For hundreds of years the Black Forest people of Germany have car- ried on their wood carving and aet homecrafts. They make cuckoo clocks, some entirely of wood, furniture, fur-niture, music boxes and toys. In former days many gems were cut ; 'J there, and the region was famed Kl for its glass. After the discovery of jjtJ America, this last industry experi-,j4 experi-,j4 enced a great boom, for traders Jjt.j needed great quantities of beads to 'f' Uade With the Indians. |