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Title: Two little savages : being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned. With over three hundred drawings
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ire for neck. The Owl after the body is put in; it is now ready to close up, by stitching up the slit on the nape, thebody slit B to C and the two wing slits El to H, on each wing. A dummy as it would look if all the feathers were off; this shows the proper position for legs and wingson the body. At W is a glimpse of the leg wire entering the body at the middle of the side.Another view of the body without feathers; the dotted lines show the wires of the legs through the hardbody, and the neck wire. Two views of one of the wooden eyes; these are on a much larger scale than the rest of the figures inthis plate. The finished Owl, with the thread wrappings on and the wires still projecting; Nw is end of the neck-wire; Bp is back-pin—that is, the wire in the center of the back; Ww and Ww are the wing wires; Tl arethe cards pinned on the tail to hold it flat while it dries. The last operation is to remove the threads andcut all these wires off close so that the feathers hide what remains.
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Owl-stuffing plate <S*e description on pases *o* and «o» The Owls and the Night-Schooi were wrapped up in a damp sack and put away in &tin till next night, when Si promised to return andfinish the course in one more lesson. While they were so working Sam had busied him*self opening the Owls stomachs—looking up theirrecords, as he called it. He now reported that onehad lynched a young Partridge and the other hadkilled a Rabbit for its latest meal. Next night Si Lee came as promised, but broughtbad news. Ke had failed to find the glass Owl eye.?he had hoped were in his trunk. His ingenuity, how-ever, was of the kind that is never balked in a Sinaismatter. He produced some black and yellow oilpaints, explaining, Guess well make wooden eyesdo for the present, an when you get to town you canput glass ones in their place. So Sam was set towork whittling four wooden eyes the shape of well-raised buns and about three-quarters of an inchacross. When whittled, scraped and smooth, Sip

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