The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 497
lded; there is no fun unless that is the«ase. The Cleft Stick, of which I am going to speak about now,belongs to the same family of toys as the sling. Themechanical law upon which it depends is the same as thatwhich regulates the propelling of stones by the sling throughthe air. Get a stick of… … exactly in the middle of the wood, and extending down thestick for about four inches. Now beg, borrow, or buy a pieceof waxed string, and whip it round the stick, commencing atbetween two and three inches from the thin split end andworking downwards. When this operation is finished, thecleft stick…
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