In Bavaria my little friends and I used to make bows out of willow branches after soaking them in water and stripping them of bark. Ditto arrows, sharpened to a point. Used my aunt’s sofa-cushions tied to a tree as a target. Got a hiding. All my little army were boys. The girls just weren’t interested...happy days.
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