The boy's own book; a complete encylopedia of all the diversion, athletic, scientific and recreative, of boyhood and youth. (1834)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Boston, Munroe and Francis; New York, C. S. Francis, 1834. · leaf 30
the breath, to a very considerable distance. The natives of Macouslie, with a cane tube, about twelve feet long, propel arrows with their breath, with such force and dexterity, as to brmg down different sorts of feathered game. ’ ve THE KITE. To construct the Kite, you must, in the first place,… … afford’ a hem to be pasted over the outer edges. Next, bore two holes in the straighter, one about a fifth of the whole length from the top, and the other rather less from the bottom ; run through these, and fasten, by a knot at the two ends, your belly-band string, to which the ball of string, by…
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