This is the doiley that Aunt Jackie gave me. It is from the back of one of Grandmother Cox's chairs. My brother and I could not resist taking them loose. I used the straight pins to make darts from cousin Allan's plans.

Cut off the head and insert into the end of a kitchen match. But only after lighting the match and eating the fire. Cut off the burnt part and split in a cross pattern. Slide two short pieces of paper, preferably torn from Grandmother's stationary, into the splits to make something like feathers on an arrow. Make sure they are lond enough to hold the dart centered in a straw. The straw was a primitive blow gun. Put a small wad of cotton behind the dart in the straw, aim at "Pig" and blow hard. Pig never did discover what was biting him every time we visited Carnegie, OK.

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