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Title: Children and gardens
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
Subjects: Gardening Children Amusements
Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country life', ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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MY FIRST GARDEN 75 till it is long enough to reach from B to C, and with thepeg of the winder you scratch a curving line in thedirection of D, keeping the line tight and the pegupright as you scratch. Then you pull up the endline-peg from B and drive it in at C, and, keeping thecord the same length as before, you scratch anothercurving line in the direction of D. This point, whichyou mark with a wooden peg where these two linescross each other, is an exact right angle from A.Now you have a peg at A, and another where thescratched lines cross. You go to A and stand behindit, and make that peg come in a line with the one at D,and this gives you the measuring line, so that you canstick pegs straight with these two, or set the gardenline, and make as long a line as youplease. This is Euclid too, andyou can also practise it at homewith pins and thread, and easiest ofall on paper on the drawing-board,with the T-square and set-square.There is another way of doing it ° THE BUILDERS SQUARE. o

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