Useful Tips
Assemble what you need – bamboo.
Brown paper, string, a pot of glue,
Feathers from Highland capercaillies,
Gut from guitars or ukuleles,
Stout cardboard, twenty small brass screws,
The sort high class opticians use,
Seventeen feet of copper wire
Are all the parts you will require.
Follow the plans enclosed, Then cut
To size and lash it tight with gut.
When your construction is robust
And sprinkled with my magic dust,
Proceed to some convenient cliff.
Hold both your arms out very stiff.
Flap. Jump. Now give it all you've got,
And you will fly. Or you will not
How do you pronounce those birds?
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