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some interesting results. He may tell you what he did to scare his father when he was a kid, and he may even show you what his father did to him when he scared him when he was a kid.
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    There are lots of other things you can do, all alone, by yourself, but these are about all I can think of right now that aren’t specialized in some way.
    I’m really serious about the library: that’s the best place to learn more. We did lots of other things when we were kids, like collecting bugs, and wild flowers, and frogs, and snakes, and stones—and in the library I promise you there will be a really expert book on each of these, and on many other subjects, written by people who’ve made a life study of those special things. There will be books about trees and radio sets and telescopes and badminton and Indian crafts and metal work, about how to make bows and arrows, how to swim, how to—oh, there’s no end. There’s even a book on how to find a how-to book.

    Some silly grownup has even written a book on how to read a book.
    But if you’ve gotten this far, I know you know how to read a book.
    There’s only one thing left to tell you: the name of this book is How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself . I understand some people get worried about kids who spend a lot of time all alone, by themselves. I do a little worrying about that, but I worry about something else even more; about kids who don’t know how to spend any time all alone, by themselves. It’s something you’re going to be doing a whole lot of, no matter what, for the rest of your lives. And I think it’s a good thing to do; you get to know yourself, and I think that’s the most important thing in the whole world.

Index

    Acorns
    eating
    sling ammunition
    Air, pressing on leather suckers
    Airplanes, paper
    Apple whipping
    Arrows
    throwing-stick
    umbrella
    Ash tray, clamshell

    Balsa wood, boomerang
    Bark, designs in
    Baskets
    burr
    peach-pit
    Ba-voom thing
    Bees, pussy-willow
    Blackjacks
    Boat, paddle-wheel
    Bolas
    Boomerangs
    Boy Scout knives
    Bracelets, clamshell

    Bugs Fish,
    books about
    Bull-roarers
    Burrs
    Busted Umbrellas
    Button buzz saw

    Case knife
    Cats, pussy-willow
    Checkering, pencils and branches
    Cigar-box things
    boat
    fiddles
    guitars
    Clamshells
    Cornstalk fiddle

    Cross-boomerang
    Dandelions
    Darts
    airplane
    needle

    Feathers, arrow
    Fence, pussy-willow cats
    Fiddles
    cigar-box
    cornstalk
    Fish, peach-pit

    Grass, squawker
    Guitars, cigar-box
    Gun, rubber-band

    Hairpins, slingshot
    Handbook for the Curious, Howes
    Handkerchief blackjacks
    Handkerchief parachutes
    Handles, slingshot
    Helicopter, paper
    Horse chestnuts shining
    Howes, Paul Griswold

    Ice pick
    Indoor boomerangs

    Jewel weed
    Jig saw
    Jumping thing

    Killers
    Knives
    Boy Scout

    Leather
    books about
    David sling
    slingshot
    Leather sucker

    Library
    bee books
    getting books from
    Lollipop sticks, slingshot ammunition

    Maple seeds
    Matchbook, boomerang
    Miniature slingshot
    Mumbly-peg
    how named
    Munjigo-peg
    Music, things that make

    Needle dart
    Nuts, slingshot ammunition

    Oilstone
    Orange-crate wood, boomerang

    Paddle-wheel boat
    Paper
    airplanes
    helicopter
    pussy-willow bees
    wings
    Paste
    Peach-pit things
    Pencils
    knife work on
    names on
    slingshot ammunition
    spool tank
    Penknife
    Pin piano
    Pistol, rubber-band
    Pocketknives
    Polly-noses
    Pussy willows

    Risk, mumbly-peg
    Rubber bands
    boomerang
    gun
    jumping thing
    paddle-wheel boat
    slingshot
    spool slingshot
    spool tank

    Scout knives
    Sharpening knives
    Shoestring, horse chestnuts
    Slice the Cheese, mumbly-peg and other
    Slice the Ham

    Slingshots
    David kind
    fork kind
    old-fashioned kind
    spool kind
    Spool slingshot
    Spool tank
    Squawker
    Suction cup

    Teachers
    airplanes
    boomerangs
    miniature slingshots
    Trash cans, stuff from
    Turtles, peach-pit

    Umbrella bows and arrows

    Walking sticks, making
    Whipping apples
    Whittling
    Willow