This unusual dachshund can be made in an hour or so from a large tomato can. Prepare a pattern on stiff paper, using the drawing as a guide. Cut open and flatten the can, taking care not to dent it. Trace the pattern on the tin and cut it out. Then bend the material as indicated by the dotted lines in the drawing, using a pair of flat-nose pliers and working slowly.

Make the match-packet holder from the top or the bottom of the can. The circular depressions stamped in the can ends may be utilized to add a modern decorative touch. Solder the holder to the back of the dachshund, taking care not to get excess solder where it will show. Polish the project with fine steel wool and give it a coat of clear lacquer to make it gleam like silver. Small individual glass ash trays may be placed, singly or in nests, on the dachshund each side of the match holder.

Can You Solve These Match Puzzles?

Reseating The Jury

1. Set out 12 matches so that they will form four squares as above. Now move four of the matches and rearrange them so that the resulting group will be three squares of the original size. No matches may be either added to or taken away from the original number.

How To Hold Your Liquor

2. Arrange three two-inch wineglasses in a triangle, separated by approximately the diameter of the rims. With three matches, make a support between the glass edges that will hold a similar wineglass, base down.

HERE is fun for the individual or for group amusement. The five tricks shown on this page offer a challenge to puzzle experts, and since kitchen matches are readily available everywhere, the materials are no problem. The teasers are used through the courtesy of Harper & Brothers, publishers of "Puzzles for Everyone," by Julien J. Proskauer. Answers are on page 168.

Two Diamonds From One

3.Arrange six matches on a table as in the figure illustrated below. The problem is to form two diamonds by changing the position of only two matches and adding another one, thus using seven matches in all.

Making A Coin Vanish

4. A wooden match is bent at an angle, placed as shown on the mouth of a bottle, and a dime is laid on top. The problem is to get the dime into the bottle without touching any part of the setup. You'll need to practice this trick to do it well.

This Represents Real Power

5. Here is deep stuff concerning the motive power of the Earth and the composition of matches. Arrange 15 as shown below.

Then take away three matches and change the position of one. The result will show what matches are made of.