Books with author Daniel Beard

Partial Contents: Kite Time; Novel Modes of Fishing; Home-Made Fishing Tackle; How to Stock, Make, and Keep a Freshwater Aquarium; How to keep Aquatic Plants in the House or Flower-Garden; How to Stock and Keep a Marine Aquarium; Knots, Bends, and Hitches; The Water-Telescope; Dredge, Tangle, and Trawl Fishing; Home-Made Boats; How to Rig and Sail Small Boats; Fourth of July Balloons, with New and Novel Attachments; How to Camp out without a Tent; Bird Singers, Etc.; Bird Nesting; How to Rear Wild Birds; Home-Made Hunting Apparatus; How to Make Blow-Guns, Elder Guns; Traps and Trapping; Dogs; Practical Taxidermy for Boys; Every Boy a Decorative Artist; Snowball Warfare; Snow-Houses and Statuary; Sleds, Chair-Sleighs, and Snow-Shoes; How to Make the Tom Thumb Ice-Boat and Larger Craft; The Winged Skaters, and How to Make the Wings; Winter Fishin.; In-Door Amusements; The Boy's Own Phunnygraph; How to Make Puppets and a Puppet-Show; Puss-in-Boots, Dramatized and Adapted For a Puppet-Show; How to Make a Magic Lantern - A Kaleidoscope - A Fortune Teller's Box; How to Make the Dancing Fairies, the Bathers, and the Orator; How to Make Various and Divers Whirlgigs; The Universe in a Card-Box; Life Instilled into Paper Puppets, and the Matches Made of Human Fingers; Home-Made Masquerade and Theatrical Costumes; Kites; Fishing; Home-Made Boats; Soap-Bubbles; Paper Fireworks; Home-Made Hunting Apparatus; Decoys; Taxidermy; 'Uncle Enos" Banjo; Snow-Shoes. Illustrated.

Contents: Birds That Prey and Some That Do Not; Small Bird Talk; How to Get Acquainted With the Birds; Origin of Our Hands and Our Backbone; Fish Sketches and Fish Stories; Lizards, Newts and Salamanders; Snakes and Snake Stories; Frogs, Toads and Some Gray-Haired Lies; Strange Creatures Met in the Water; Little People of the Outdoor World; Curiosity of Birds and Beasts; Appendix. Illustrated.

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