Elsewhere boys are very ingenious little fellows, and have several games; they also shoot birds with bows, and teach captured linnets to sing.

They are expert in making guns and traps for small birds, and in making and using bird-lime.

They make play guns of reed, which go off with a trigger and spring, with a cloud of ashes for smoke.

Sometimes they make double-barrelled guns of clay, and have cotton-fluff as smoke.

The boys shoot locusts with small toy guns very cleverly.