Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls

by Anonymous

Fig. K.

The awls (like Fig. L.) are filed like this into teeth-like notches on the part going into the wood, and roundly sharp on the other part thus: (Fig. M.)

Fig. L.

Fig. M.

These may be shot into an oak-tree and extracted by a twist of the hand close to the arrow-point.

Fig. N.

The broad-head hunting-point (Fig. N.) is put on by slitting the arrow and inserting the flat handle of the arrow point, and wrapping it with silk, sinews, or copper wire. These points can be sharpened along the line A B on a whetstone, and will cut like knives. The hunting arrow looks like this: (Fig. O.)