Material: One piece of strawboard (or cardboard) 8 in. x 10 1/2 in.; two pieces 3 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in.; two collar-buttons; paste and scissors.

Place the strawboard on the desk, the long edge toward you.

Two and one-half inches from the lower right-hand corner, on the short edge, make a dot.

The same distance from the lower left-hand corner, on the short edge, make another.

Fig 1

Fig 2

Connect these dots by a line. (a, Fig. 1.)

Draw a line parallel to this line three inches above it.

Three and a half inches from the left end of both lines, make dots.

Connect the dots by a line.

Draw a line parallel to this line, 1/2 inch to the right, a third 2 inches to the right of the second, a fourth 2 1/2 inches to the right of the third.

Seven inches from the left end of the first long line that was drawn (a) make a dot.

Seven inches from the lower left-hand corner, on the long edge, make another.

Join these two dots by a line, (b, Fig. 1.)

Connect the lower end of this line with the end of the line one inch to the left of it.

Two inches to the left of this slanting line (c) just drawn, draw a line parallel to it (s).

Two and a quarter inches from the lower left-hand corner, on the short edge, make a dot.

Draw a line from this dot to the first slanting line. (0, Fig. 1.)

Construct lines similar to, 0, s, c, and b, above the long line which is 2 1/2 in. from the upper edge of the strawboard.

Cut out the pattern (on the black lines, Fig. 1).

With the point of one blade of the scissors crease all of the light lines except x.

Crease x on the under side.

Bend and paste into shape as shown in Fig. 2. (The triangles should be pasted to the back.)

Make wheels three inches in diameter. (See Dutch Milk Cart.)