THE REVIVAL OF ARCHERY 
sometimes costs as high as a hundred dollars. 
The reason for this is found in the fact that 
in making a yew bow or, in fact, in making 
any of the best bows the wood must not 
be carved nor sawed out, but split, and the 
shape of the bow must follow the grain of 
the wood and be finished accordingly; even 
though: there are knots, these must be 
polished and allowed to remain. Backed 
bows, or those made of two pieces, are much 
less expensive, and of course not as desir- 
able, although beefwood backed with lance- 
wood or hickory makes a reliable weapon. 
But, undoubtedly, the best all-round bow is 
a self-lancewood or lemonwood made of 
perfectly seasoned material. 
In selecting a bow the qualities most 
desirable are elasticity, lasting power and 
evenness of action, and it requires a con- 
noisseur to know how to determine their 
presence. The length of the bow should 
equal the height of the archer. The strength 
is expressed in pounds, according to its 
power of resistance, the average for a ladies’ 
bow being from twenty to forty pounds and 
for a man’s from thirty-five to sixty. 
Its shape (that of the perfect bow) is full 
in the center, tapering gradually to the ends, 
which are tipped with horn, and pliable 
without bending unevenly. 
Important as the bow is and delicate a 
matter as it is to make it, the arrows require 
even more nicety in construction. They 
have three parts, the body, the head and the 
feather, the two former technically called 
the stele and the pile, or point. Very stiff 
wood, preferably red deal of straight grain 
or perfectly seasoned pine, is used for the 
shaft, and for the feathering peacock 
feathers are considered best. They are 
arranged practically parallel to the shaft, 
which position gives the fleetest possible 
rotary motion. 
Arrows, like the bows, may be made of 
one wood or of two kinds dovetailed to- 
gether, the former called selfs, the latter 
footed, but unlike the bows those of two 
pieces are the better. 
The accepted rules regulating the sport 
of archery in the United States are those 
adopted by the National Archery Associa- 
tion, as governing the ‘‘ York Round.” The 
“York Round” consists of seventy-two 
arrows at one hundred yards, forty-eight 
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THE SPLICE 
But it is no boy’s trick to make it 
arrows at eighty yards and twenty-four ar- 
rows at sixty yards. 
An enumeration of some of the terms used 
will give an insight into the method of play: 
Bow-arm: the left arm; elevation: the 
height of the bow-hand in aiming; allow- 
ance: the distance of change in aiming to 
compensate for the wind; end: the number 
of arrows shot before walking to the oppo- 
site target, three arrows to an archer being 
allowed; He! He!: the word of call used by 
archers in hailing each other; home: drawn 
to the pile; hornspoon: hitting the outer 
edge of the target beyond the white; length: 
the distance between the archer and the 
target; fast: a command to stop; cut the 
gold: an arrow is said to cut the gold when, 
in falling short, it appears to drop across the 
gold; pair: three arrows; snake: an arrow 
snakes when it slips under the grass; tab: 
a flat piece of leather used in place of finger- 
tip; under-bowed: having too weak a bow; 
wide: an arrow is wide when it flies to one 
