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 233
(i)) ,--^^^^^---- -- - ^J Elder-Guns and Pistols..— —-o When the author was a very O-v-ro-uir- FiG. 133.—A Simple Elder-Gun. small boy he was taught bysome playmates to make an elder gun, a simple contrivance,made of a piece of elder or any other hollow stick. A long 204 Summer, … notch cut in one side admits a spring made of whalebone (Fig.133). By pushing the spring back the short arrow shown inthe illustration can be propelled quite a distance. If insteadof the awkward whalebone spring a piece of elastic be used, ^ much neater gun^f^^fey can be made Fig- 134 showsa pistol…
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