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0 7   1 0 Scraper, with round end 0 2   0 5 Two Files (half round), one rough, the other smooth 1 0   3 0 Chopper or Axe 1 10   1 6 Spokeshave (iron) 0 5   1 0 Screw-driver 0 3   0 7 Glue-Pot and Brush 1 6   0 10 Pincers 0 7   0 9 Two Brad-Awls 0 2   0 4 Brace and twenty-four Bits 4 0   6 9 Sand-paper No. 1a   Pencil     [2]37 3   65 3

Although the prices of the English tools are so much higher than the Swedish (with few exceptions), they are cheaper in the end. They are more carefully made; the wood is drier and better selected; and Swedish steel is not to be compared with English. At the same time, the Swedish tools are good enough to put into the hands of school boys and girls, and they have also the advantage of being considerably lighter in weight.

THE BENCH.

A drawing of the Bench is annexed, to show the difference between one adapted for Sloyd or Hand-Craft and the kind in common use by carpenters. The Sloyd Bench is usually about 7 ft. long, 2 ft. wide, and 3 ft. 3 in. high. As shown in the drawing, it has an extra Bench Screw at the end, which enables the student to fix a piece of level wood rigidly on the top of the Bench, by placing the end against a Stop, as shown in the drawing, and bringing the pressure of the End Screw to bear on the other end. The numerous holes (shown in the drawing) on the Bench Top, are so arranged that the Stop can be fixed in any of them. For school work the Benches are often made double—that is, with a Screw on each side and on each end of the Bench. This arrangement economises space, and answers all practical purposes; enabling two students to work at one bench. The Sloyder will find it an advantage to fix a small drawer under the bench top. In this he should keep his sand-paper and files, as nothing is so detrimental to the edges of the sharp tools as these two articles.

TOOL EXERCISES.

The making of the models involves training in the exercises enumerated in the following list, the numbering being for subsequent reference.

1.	Long Cut (with grain).	26.	Perpendicular Chiselling.
2.	End Cut (across grain).	27.	Concave Chiselling or Gouging.
3.	Oblique Cut.	28.	Gouging with Spoon-Iron.
4.	Bevel Cut.	29.	Oblique Chiselling.
5.	Sawing off.	30.	Smoothing with Spokeshave.
6.	Convex Cut.	31.	Shaping with Spokeshave.
7.	Long Sawing.	32.	Oblique Sawing.
8.	Edge Planing.	33.	Oblique Planing.
9.	Squaring with Set Square.	34.	End Planing.
10.	Gauging.	35.	Exercises with Smoothing Plane.
11.	Drilling with Brace and Shell-Bit.	36.	Work in Hard Wood.
12.	Flat Planing.	37.	Dowelling or Round Mortising.
13.	Filing.	38.	Bevelling Edge with Plane Oblique.
14.	Drilling with Brace and Centre-Bit.	39.	Gluing.
15.	Curved Sawing.	40.	Sinking in of Iron Plates.
16.	Concave Cut.	41.	Nailing.
17.