Hop-scotch to hare-and-hounds, conjuring to chemistry, rabbits to rowing — the complete Victorian repertoire of things for a boy to do, set down with rules and diagrams.

Butterflies and Butterfly-Catching

2 pages in this part of Every Boy's Book.

Butterflies and Butterfly-Catching

IT is impossible within the space at our disposal to give a description of each species of butterfly, but we may give our young would-be…

Butterflies and Butterfly-Catching: Moths

WE will now proceed to say a few words about Moths, which are very numerous, and, like the butterflies, they undergo three changes. The…

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