What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 225
have read of that won-derful sling called a ** bolas, used by some tribes ofsavages for the capture of game, but I doubt if anyof them ever tried to manufacture one for themselves.Yet this curious missile can be madeby a boy, and if he be inchned tofield sports, he will find that a bird-bolas will… … Fig. 128.—Bird-Bolas. Home-Made Hunting Apparatus^ Etc. 197 cloth, as shown by the diagram (a, b, Fig. 128). Take threepieces of string each five feet long, double them in the centre,and bind the doubled parts together; a few small feathers maybe bound in to add a finished and Indian look to the…
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