. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. THE DART AND DART STICK. free end. Place the string in the notch, and holding the arrow end in left handand the stick in the right, draw the string tight and hold it so, then after two orthree sweeping motions of the body and arms, let it fly. When a boy, I usedto throw darts over the tops of the tallest trees. To Make tlie Spring C^nn.—Take a piece of elder bush of any lengththat can be obtained between joints ; punch out the pith, then c
. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. THE DART AND DART STICK. free end. Place the string in the notch, and holding the arrow end in left handand the stick in the right, draw the string tight and hold it so, then after two orthree sweeping motions of the body and arms, let it fly. When a boy, I usedto throw darts over the tops of the tallest trees. To Make tlie Spring C^nn.—Take a piece of elder bush of any lengththat can be obtained between joints ; punch out the pith, then cut as repre-sented in the illustration, and put in a spring of whalebone or tough stick to be used as a missile should be made in length and size to corre-. rHE ELDER SIRING CIUN. s^.n-rA with the gun. It is discharged by drawing back upon the spring end atthe bcttom. and then letting it suddenly go. Where an cWvv bush cannot belily obtained, a piece of 1)amboo may l)e used. l)ut it should be of small readsize TRAPS AND TRAPPING. 293 TRAPS AND TRAPPING. The Steel Trap.—The most convenient device for capturing most kindsof animals is the steel trap, but there are places where other styles are muchbetter, and of these I shall speak specially. How to Make a Box Trap.—For the bottom, cut a board fifteeninches long, and eight inches wide ; two side pieces same length and seveninches wide. Nail the two side pieces to bottom, then take for back end aboard eight inches wide and eighteen inches long. After fitting in, bevel thesides so that the upper end will be but half an inch wide, and in this cut a
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