[Footnote: gimlet: Hand tool with a spiraled shank, a screw tip, and a
cross handle; used for boring holes.]

13. Herbert worked away until he had made the beam and the post. Then he
made a hole in the middle of the block, and put the post in. Next, he put
the beam into a little groove at the top of the post, so that it would
balance nicely.

14. "Now, Lucy, we must have a needle and some thread. We must put four
threads to each cup; then we will tie the threads to the ends of the beam.


15. "There, Lucy, what do you think of that?"

16. "Why, Herbert, that is just as nice as the real scales in father's
store; and you may have all my orange for making them."

[Illustration: Orange halves and other parts of the scale.]



LESSON XXXIX.

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young'est danced joy'ful ly marched

sol'diers bad'ly run'ning eld'est