It used to be a favorite amusement with the boys to send messengers up their
kite strings after they had succeeded in raising their good kite to a
respectable height. These messengers arc simply round pieces of colored paper
with slits cut in them to holes in their centers. The slits are for the purpose
of sliding the string through to the hole. The latter is just large enough to
allow the paper to slip over the string with as little friction as possible.
(See Figs. 31 and 32)
The wind takes these papers up the string and hence they are called
messengers to the kite.
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