• Complain

Foxfire Fund - Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs

Here you can read online Foxfire Fund - Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, genre: Home and family. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover
  • Book:
    Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Genre:
  • Rating:
    5 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 100
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

The Foxfire Americana Library takes you back to the good ol days with a collection of simple, classic toys that can be made at home. Complete with illustrated step-by-step instructions, Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs includes advice on how to make:
Ball and Cups
Blowguns
Bouncing Pigs
Bows and Arrows
Bubble Blowers
Bull Grinders
Buttons on a String
Climbing Bears
Corn Guns
Cornstalk Animals
Cornstalk Fiddle
Apple-head Dolls
Cucumber Dolls
Fluttermills
Fly Guns
Hoops
Jumping Jacks
Kicking Mules
Limberjacks
Pop Guns
Puzzles
Rattletraps
Rolling Clowns
Sling Shots
Smoke Grinders
Squirt Guns
Stick Horses
Stilts
Grapevine Swings
Rope Swings
Tops or Dancers
Whimmy Diddles or Jeep Sticks
Hollow Whistles
Split Whistles
Whittled Animals

Foxfire Fund: author's other books


Who wrote Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION SEPTEMBER 2011 Copyright 1980 by the Foxfire Fund Inc - photo 1
ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION SEPTEMBER 2011 Copyright 1980 by the Foxfire Fund Inc - photo 2

ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2011

Copyright 1980 by the Foxfire Fund, Inc.

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Originally published in Foxfire 6, 1980 by The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

eISBN: 978-0-307-94825-0

v3.1

Table of Contents
A NOTE ABOUT THE FOXFIRE AMERICANA LIBRARY SERIES

For almost half a century, high school students in the Foxfire program in Rabun County, Georgia, have collected oral histories of their elders from the southern Appalachian region in an attempt to preserve a part of the rapidly vanishing heritage and dialect. The Foxfire Fund, Inc., has brought that philosophy of simple living to millions of readers, starting with the bestselling success of The Foxfire Book in the early 1970s. Their series of fifteen books and counting has taught creative self-sufficiency and has preserved the stories, crafts, and customs of the unique Appalachian culture for future generations.

Traditionally, books in the Foxfire series have included a little something for everyone in each and every volume. For the first time ever, through the creation of The Foxfire Americana Library, this forty-five-year collection of knowledge has been organized by subject. Whether down-home recipes or simple tips for both your household and garden, each book holds a wealth of tried-and-true information, all passed down by unforgettable people with unforgettable voices.

I LLUSTRATION 1 Mr Davis glues the cup to the stick TOYS Ball and Cup ARTHUR - photo 3

I LLUSTRATION 1 Mr. Davis glues the cup to the stick.

TOYS
Ball and Cup

ARTHUR DAVIS : I havent been making these all my life and I dont know anything about their history. Its a good game, though. If you practice a while, you can get pretty good at it.

The pieces are whittled out of mountain laurel or rhododendron, but you could use other kinds. The handles and the cups are glued together, and I make the balls out of pine wood. But you can use whatever you have. The main idea is to swing the stick with one hand so the ball drops into the cup without touching it with the other hand.

I LLUSTRATION 2 The finished toy I LLUSTRATION 3 Blowgun ERNEST FRANKLIN - photo 4

I LLUSTRATION 2 The finished toy.

I LLUSTRATION 3 Blowgun ERNEST FRANKLIN Take a hollow weed or something - photo 5

I LLUSTRATION 3

Blowgun

ERNEST FRANKLIN : Take a hollow weed, or something that doesnt have any sections in it like bamboo, and cut a piece of it anywhere from four to six feet long. That makes your gun.

For the darts, wed take a round piece of hickory about 3/16 inch in diameter and sharpen one end and put it in the fire and temper it a little bit. Then wed take a squirrels tail and cut about a third of it off and fasten that on the other end of your hickory dart. Then you stick that dart in the hollow weed and blow up a storm!

Bouncing Pig

One of the toys Willard Watson makes is called a bouncing pig. A rod runs through the front feet of the pig so that its hindquarters are free to rise up and down. As the crank at the back end of the toy is turned, the mans right arm moves up and down to whip the pig, and each time the pig is whipped, its hindquarters rise off the platform (the mans left leg moves forward, and a rod connected to his left foot and left hand causes his left hand to rise; a rod connecting his left hand and the pigs hindquarters pulls the hindquarters into the air).

Bow and Arrow

LAWTON BROOKS : We made bows and arrows out of hickory wood. Wed take a springy sapling or branch for a bow, shape it right with a knife and put little notches in the ends, and string it with a string. Wed make arrows out of shorter piecesstraight as we could get them. We took umbrella staves one time and made spikes [for the arrows] out of them. Wed tore up somebodys umbrella, got the spikes out of it, and put them in the arrows to kill rabbits, birds, things like that.

LELIA GIBSON : My brother would get a piece of wood, a green saplingit had to be green so it would bend. Hed cut it to the right length, and string a cord on that. Then hed get a straight stick [for the arrow] and hed go to the fields and find stonesold arrowheads the Indians had madeand tie that on the end of the arrow. If they couldnt find arrowheads, theyd use a big twenty-penny nail, but I dont recall now how they fixed that nail on the end of the arrow. They could make the arrows stick into trees.

I LLUSTRATION 4 Willard Watsons bouncing pig HATTIE KENNY Arrows were made - photo 6

I LLUSTRATION 4 Willard Watsons bouncing pig HATTIE KENNY Arrows were made - photo 7

I LLUSTRATION 4 Willard Watsons bouncing pig.

HATTIE KENNY : Arrows were made out of sourwood that grows up in the spring. Let em stand over the winter and cut em to make your arrows.

BUCK CARVER : For the bows wed use hickory or white-oak saplings. Instead of string wed use what they called whang leather, which was strips of ground-hog hide. Then wed wire or tie a nail up in a straight stick for an arrow.

EDD HODGINS : We used string out of cottonseed meal sacks for the string. Thats about all the string we ever got when I was little.

Bubble Blower

LELIA GIBSON : We used to get an old sewing-thread spool, take some soap, and make a lather in water. Wed [dip one end of the spool in the lather] and blow through the other end and make bubbles. Theyd be different colors. Theyd be red, pink, blueall colors.

Bull Grinder

DAVE PICKETT : The Ozark bull grinder was something people say started in the Ozarks. Of course, bull grinders aint the only name it had. Ive heard them called do nothings and smoke grinders. I call them bull grinders because the guy I got the pattern from, thats what he called it. I asked for his permission to use the label off the back of his and I just changed it a little bit. Its a little toy thats good for absolutely nothing except for passifying oneself with something to do other than twiddling his thumbs. I put a label on the back to tell people just what it is: Its for people going either direction, cutting red tape, breaking conversation ice, relieving nervous tension, advanced stages of thumb twiddling, sharpening dull conversations, a reducing gear for big wheels. The worlds most useless necessity is made of selected pieces of well-seasoned out-house wood by retired moonshiners.

I LLUSTRATION 5 First Dave cuts strips off a poplar board at a 15 angle for the - photo 8

I LLUSTRATION 5 First Dave cuts strips off a poplar board at a 15 angle for the pistons.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs»

Look at similar books to Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs»

Discussion, reviews of the book Blowguns and Bouncing Pigs and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.