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The dove is easily made, requiring only a little paste, paper, wadding and patience. Take a pure white egg, as the dove is to be a white one; blow the contents from the shell; then from writing paper cut the wing like Fig. 1; Fig 2. is the head, Fig. 3 is the tail and Fig. 4 is the wingbone, which must be cut from stiff white paper, stiffer and heavier than the wings, head and tail. Pin this paper pattern over clean, fresh cotton wadding and cut out the cotton along the lines of the pattern. Into the edge of the cotton fit the wingbone, by opening the wadding a little distance along the upper side of the wing along line AA and pasting the wadding together over the wingbone, completely hiding it. Then paste the wings to the egg where the short dotted line appears. Paste on the tail and last the head. Put on the head by opening the cotton at the neck and fitting it upon the larger end of the egg. Bend the wings out as if the dove were flying; with ink mark the eye and beak and the bird will be completed.

The dove will hang quite cheerfully to the chandelier if a knot is made in a long white thread, the thread run through a bit of adhesive and the adhesive attached to the top of the egg, as if it were attached to the dove's back."