They'll Settle for a Feather
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Feather for a Sail
SOUTHERN kids may de mand their ten-guinea radio-controlled toy fire engines, and their 20-guinea toy cars, hut the Tokelau kids will settle for less.
At Nukunono, in July, the little hoys were having a whale of a time with tiny canoes carved from scraps of driftwood and each fitted with sails made from a pair of feathers from the tail of an island rooster.
With the feather mast-and sail combination properly ad justed, these craft could sail with the plushest toy canoes of more sophisticated lands— with nothing to go wrong.