it all joined together the next thing is to make the arms and legs appear
animated.” .

‘What is animated?” cried May, a little dismayed at some of the long
words her mother was using.

“Animated means lively, May. We can make the figure appear lively by
passing a string through the little holes above the rivets and fastening them
together with knots, as you see in figure B. Now that we have done this we
will pull down the string, as shown in figure C, and-our harlequin will throw out
his arms and legs, and the faster we pull the harder he will dance; there, is not
that nice?”

May was so delighted with the harlequin that the next night she wanted
her mamma to show her how to make something else. After supper was over
and they were seated around the fire her mamma said: ‘What shall we make
to-night, May?” :

“JT was reading about a bear this afternoon,” said May, ‘and I wondered if
we could not make one.”

“T think this will not be very hard,” said mamma. ‘We will need the
same kind of material that we had last night. The first thing is to cut out the
Body of the bear, and that happens to be shown in the diagram No. 2.
Then let us cut out the arms and legs; you see in making the bear we do not
have nearly so many pieces as we had in the harlequin last night. Make the
holes in the arms and legs; fasten them to the body with a rivet of string, just
as we did before; then through the little holes in the upper part of the limbs
pass another string, one on each side of the body, letting them hang down so
they can be taken hold of, and there you have the bear complete, as in figure
B. We will make this large; let us make it about twelve inches high, and at
will be quite a bear.” . ;

The bear was made and May was highly pleased with it. “But. mamma,
can we not put hair on it and make it a real bear?” said May.

“No, May, we cannot put hair onit, but we can paint it black if you wish.
Let us take a little bit of burnt sienna shaded with sepia and black, as that will
be the best color to paint the bear. We can paint all of our toys if you wish,”
said mamma; ‘‘and let me see how gay acoat you can give your harlequin to-
morrow.”

The bear and the harlequin afforded amusement for several days, but a
few nights later little May was anxious to try some other toy.

“What shall it be?” said mamma.

“Almost anything,” said May.

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