Apr 18, 2011

Slingshot!

I helped Mamadou make a slingshot, by which I mean I held pieces of elastic steady while he cut and tied and fastened. He told me he was going to go to the bush and kill something, but I did not recognize the animal. This means it was not a bird, snake, scorpion, goat, sheep, donkey, horse, chicken, duck, cat, dog, mouse, lizard, mosquito, monkey or hippopotamus. Or a lion, elephant, or bee. What else could it be?!


He said he’d already shot one of them in the eye, but it's possible this was only in his imagination. He also told me if he shot a bird we’d cook and eat it, and then he aimed his slingshot into the mango tree.

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