Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — More Cork Figures, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

More Cork Figures,

This little lady is Miss Flopsy Floataway. She cannot sing, but she will

dance very gracefully if put on the top or sonn&ng-jboard of a piano. Cut her out of a large cork ’in the shape shown in Fig. 1. and in the /base insert half a (d6zeh stiff bristles or fine pieces of 'bropm splinter. Make arms of pins aud dough,and mark

her face with pen and ink. Dress her

in tarlatan or some light and fluffjf rrta-'’ terial, making her skirts quite full; add a fez of bright red, and she will astonish; you by her if some one will ploy 5 a jig. Or if you put? her on a tin tea-tray, tip it a little and drum

on the bottom, and she will go through many a difficult figure with ease. Cork is a fine figure to make birds of, especially water birds. Ducks and

geese have to have a keel made of a piece of putty on a pin stnok in their under sides. Any number of queerlooking creatures can be npade with sea hers. This one has been called a goblin bird, though he doesn’t gobble. Matches can make good legs and neck, and his bead can be made of beeswax or dough, with a piece of quill cut to form a beak. Glass beads for eyes and feathers “to taste” make him quite indescribable.

Tint verses commencing, “You’d ;ca ce expect one of my age*” etc., are mid to have been written expressly for a prominent New Hampshire statesman who flourished in the first half of ibis century. He spoke the verses v lieu a mere child at school.