Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 363
n, from the flatsurface of the womera. Thisprocess occupies him a full day.He will then perhaps scratch afew crossed lines at one end asa final ornamentation, and thewomera is complete. We have now a weapon abouta yard long, four inches wide,one eighth of an inch thick,and weighing from a pound toa… … it is to take a short run and hurl it from theshoulder with the point downward, giving theweapon a slight horizontal twist as it leavesthe hand. It will travel about thirty or fortyyards on a plane with the throwers head, andthen suddenly shoot upward with increasedspeed at an angle of fifty…
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