Yet an expert aboriginal has sent it a measured distance of two hundred and twenty yards.

It would have gone even further but it encountered rank ferns and underwood on its passage and they damaged its speed.

Two hundred and twenty yards; and so weightless a toy--a mouse on the end of a bit of wire, in effect; and not sailing through the accommodating air, but encountering grass and sand and stuff at every jump.

It looks wholly impossible; but Mr.Brough Smyth saw the feat and did the measuring, and set down the facts in his book about aboriginal life, which he wrote by command of the Victorian Government.
What is the secret of the feat?
No one explains.

It cannot be physical strength, for that could not drive such a feather-weight any distance.
It must be art.