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NATURE STUDY

  

While you are picking your people

carry a small jar of water.

(This will keep your people fresh.)

To press the people open them out flat.

(It is best to press the centre of the person

with your thumb.)

Then put the person inside some blotting paper.

Put this inside an old book

and on top of the book put a few bricks.

After about seven weeks

the person will be ready.

Then lay out the person

in the pattern you want him

on some hardboard.

When you have done this

put a tiny piece of Copydex

on the hardest part of the person

and stick him in place.

Then carefully put the finished person

in a frame.

You then have a very pretty person picture.

Alan Marshfield

   

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