Forest and stream . boomerangthrowers. Youve heard of Australian bushmen, he said,who have a weapon made of a bent stick that they throwwith wonderful skill, hitting the prey unerringly, the boom-erang returning of itself to fall at the feet of the marksman?I had an agent to go from London to the wilds of New SouthWales; but he writes me that the accounts are two-thirds lies;and the remaining third isnt worth bringing away. Theboomerang is a fact, and the native Australian savages flingit at game—missing about as often as hitting; and it will re-turn, if it strikes nothing, to somewhere near t


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