Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 647
heright time and right place. If properly aimed, itwill go straight away perhaps two hundred feet,then, crossing and recrossing its first route, itdescribes the figure 8 before it drops to theground. Another stunt is to throw it so that itwill come back close enough to the player toallow him to… … A GROUP OF BOOMERANGS. before returning to him. To put it in a nutshell,he can guide it here and there as though it werea thing of life attached to him by a cord. No wonder the boomerang is called a deadlyweapon! Even with a slight throw it will gothrough the air with surprising swiftness, andthe…
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