The Swiss are skillful with their hands. The machinery and tools they make are noted for their fineness. Swiss watchers and clocks are excellent timepieces because every part has been made with exactness. You have doubtless seen the Swiss cuckoo clock. In some of these a cuckoo appears and calls out the quarters and the hours. In other a quail calls the quarter and a cuckoo the hour. Much of this carving is done by hand by patient Swiss workmen. It takes many qualitites to be a wood carver. Skill in handling tools, endless patience, a steady hand, and a trained eye are all needed. The picture shows a wood-worker putting on the finishing touches to a fine buck chiseled from wood. On his bench stand several carvings of the chamois, the wild, mountain goat of Switzerland. Animals, flowers, trees, and mountains are the subjects the workmen treat in wood. Many of these men work at this trade only

during the winter. Others make it a point to have their workshops open in summer to get the tourists' trade. Every year thousands of American dollars are left in Switzerland in payment for pieces of carved wood. Toys, caskets, spoons, forks, and articles of household furniture - all of carved wood - are popular with tourists. All this woodcarving is due to a little school founded many years ago by Christian Fisher. Fisher taught his pupils how to handle the wood carver's knife. The Swiss were not slow to see the value of such a training. They look it up readily. The result is that the Swiss are the best-known wood carvers and toymakers in the world. Perhaps you are taught in your school how to do woodwork. Many of our schools are now equipped with machinery to teach woodworking. In some schools, carving is taught. Such work as this we coped in part from the Swiss.