Wooden Cannon
Unlike a Quaker gun, a wooden cannon is a functional weapon, albeit notoriously weak and only able to fire a few shots, sometimes even just one shot, before bursting. These were used by those without access to metal or the skill to engineer metallic cannons.
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“You think a wooden animal
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it’s not.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
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