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The loop of the handle-head is made of a bit of tough 

 green ash, whittled into shape. Its square shoulders fit 

 loosely under the head of the pin, and a channel is hollowed 

 on each side for the shaft of the pin, so that it can revolve 

 freely. The thicker butts of the bent ash loop are securely 



Wooden Plough 



bound with waxed twine, and one half of the flail is 

 complete. 



The swingel is a thicker rod, about the same length as the 

 handle, viz. 41 inches. The end where it joins the head has 

 a depression whittled out of it an inch from the tip. A stout 

 raw-hide loop is passed over this, and is fixed with a binding 

 of a thinner strip of the same. Another loop of raw hide 

 makes a link connecting the other two. The word ' flail ' is 

 a highly respectable descendant oi flagellum. 



