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A boomerang can be made of a piece of well seasoned hickory plank.
The plank is well steamed in a wash boiler or other large kettle and then bent to a nice curve, as shown in Fig. 1.
It is held in this curve until dry, with two pieces nailed on the sides as shown.

After the piece is thoroughly dried out, remove the side pieces and cut it into sections with a saw, as shown in Fig. 2.
The pieces are then dressed round.
A piece of plank 12 in. wide and 2 ft. long will make six boomerangs.

How to throw a boomerang

To throw a boomerang, grasp it and hold the same as a club, with the hollow side away from you.
Practice first at some object about 25 ft. distant, and in a short time the thrower will be able to hit the mark over 100 ft. away.
Any worker in wood can turn out a great number of boomerangs cheaply.

Excerpt from the book:
THE BOY MECHANIC
VOLUME I
1913, BY H. H. WINDSOR CHICAGO
POPULAR MECHANICS CO. PUBLISHERS

Roddy Doyle is one of my favorite contemporary novelists. I especially like The Woman Who Walked into Doors and Paula Spencer. So I was intrigued to discover he also writes fiction for children. His latest is A Greyhound of a Girl, and its an unusual take on a ghost story. Set in present day Dublin, the novels protagonist is Mary, a 12-year-old who speaks her mind, occasionally veering into being cheeky. One day coming home from school she meets a curiously old-fashioned woman who seems familiar, although Mary is sure shes never seen her before.

It turns out the woman is the ghost of her great grandmother, who died suddenly of the flu in 1928. Shes returned to guide her daughter, Emer, whos dying, from this world to the next. To do that she needs Mary and her mother Scarletts help. The four generations of women embark on a journey one night, traveling to revisit the farm where the great grandmother and grandmother once lived.

As in his adult books, Doyle is especially strong on dialog and the three women and one-woman-in-waiting banter in distinctive, colloquial voices. Doyle explores mother-daughter relationships from different viewpoints and astute readers will enjoy seeing how Scarletts struggles for independence are later echoed by Mary. And while the novel pingpongs from present to past, because the characters are so clearly drawn, the reader is never confused. If you like your ghost stories light on scary and full of heartfelt emotion, A Greyhound of a Girl is for you.

A Greyhound of a Girl
by Roddy Doyle
Amulet, 208 pages
Publication: May 2012