THE amateur is frequently in too great haste to "make a bracket," and does not give sufficient time for practice; especially is this the case with the younger ones, and for this reason many get discouraged. The true way to be successful is to follow instructions explicitly. No one should attempt to do a nice piece of work until he can saw on a line, or circle, or cut an angle with ease and precision; for this practice old cigar boxes are the cheapest and handiest.

After you have learned to follow straight and curved lines, the next and only difficult point to learn is to turn a square or sharp corner, as in Lesson I.