Somebody draws the outline of this shadow
_exactly_ with a pencil; it is then cut out and pasted neatly, black
side up, on a sheet of white paper. Good and expressive likenesses are
often secured, and droll ones _very_ often. Try it, some of you, in
the long evenings which are coming.
[Illustration: DIAGRAM OF WALL-POCKET.]
A LEAF PEN-WIPER.
Your pattern for this must be a beech-leaf again,--a _long_ one this
time,--or you may trace the shape from the illustration. Outline the
shape as before, and from the model thus secured cut six leaves in
flannel--two green, two brown, and two red, or red, white and blue, or
any combination you like. Snip the edge of each leaf into very tiny
points, and chain-stitch veins upon it with gold-colored floss. Attach
these leaves together by the upper ends, arranging under them three
triply pointed leaves of black broadcloth or silk to receive the ink,
and finish the top with a small bow of ribbon.
[Illustration: A LEAF PEN-WIPER.]
A BIRDS'-NEST PEN-WIPER.
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