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Title: Primary Handwork

Author: Ella Victoria Dobbs

Release Date: December 14, 2009 [eBook #30676]

Language: English

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PRIMARY HANDWORK

* * * * * *

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . DALLAS
ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

* * * * * *

[Illustration: HOUSE OF THE THREE BEARS

Built by first-grade class. Columbia, Missouri. See page 58.]

PRIMARY HANDWORK

by

ELLA VICTORIA DOBBS, B.S., A.M.

Assistant Professor of Manual Arts
University of Missouri

New York
The Macmillan Company
1923

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1914,
by The Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1914.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

DEDICATED TO
THE LITTLE CHILDREN OF AMERICA
WITH THE WISH
THAT ALL THEIR SCHOOL DAYS
MAY BE HAPPY DAYS

PREFACE

This book is the outgrowth of long experience as a teacher of