Shans at home . e very fond of climbingtrees. They climb well, and use no extraneous help,though they seem to walk up the trees. Their kneesrarely touch the trunk,^ and they climb with a stronggrip of fingers and toes. Many of the children carrysmall bows. One kind is a cross-bow, and the arrowsare of wood, with neither barb nor feather. These arepurely toys: if they reach the object aimed at, theydo no harm. A very different weapon is the bowwhich is used with clay pellets the size of is double-stringed, the strings uniting in a widetwist—which makes a sort of pocket—in the middle:
Shans at home . e very fond of climbingtrees. They climb well, and use no extraneous help,though they seem to walk up the trees. Their kneesrarely touch the trunk,^ and they climb with a stronggrip of fingers and toes. Many of the children carrysmall bows. One kind is a cross-bow, and the arrowsare of wood, with neither barb nor feather. These arepurely toys: if they reach the object aimed at, theydo no harm. A very different weapon is the bowwhich is used with clay pellets the size of is double-stringed, the strings uniting in a widetwist—which makes a sort of pocket—in the middle:this twist makes a starting-point for the hard pellets,which go with considerable force, and children learn A Shan magistrate fined a man five rupees for stealing one ofthese wooden bells, saying: The lazy scamp ! If he had stolen acopper bell I would have fined him one half of that sum; but as hemight have made the wooden one himself, I doubled the fine for hislaziness.—W. W. C. See illustration at p.
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