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LITTLE WANDERERS. 
Willow branches about as large around as one's fin- 
ger make very good whistles in the spring of the year. 
The sap flowing under the bark loosens it, so that by 
Pollarded willows. 
pounding the twig the bark can be slipped off unbroken, 
the wood beneath cut as desired, and the bark slipped 
on again. 
The dotted lines show how 
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the wood should be cut away under the bark. 
Willow twigs also make, very good switches, and 
long, ah, very long ago, when children used to be 
naughty, willow switches were in great demand. 
In these later days children are never naughty I 
suppose — or is it only that switching has gone out of 
fashion ? 
These switches did not come from weeping willows, 
