![]() ![]() Did they ever get used for flighting arrows? Arthur doesn’t seem to have taken up a bow beyond, perhaps, playing Red Indians as a child with his friend Ric Eddison. I gather it was Arthur Ransome’s sister, Joyce, who owned a green parrot whose feathers made good pipe cleaners. Another great-aunt was shot in the bonnet by an arrow when the Boxer Rising reached Peking. The influence was not lost on Arthur Ransome who writes in his autobiography that his Great-aunt Susan was a keen toxophilite who attended bow meetings at Belle Isle, the long island on Windermere. ~Sophie Neville dressed as a medieval archer in 1969~Īrchery became a popular sport for ladies in Victorian England. I hope he would be amused to learn it has been the arrow, fletched with green parrot feathers, that has flown through the pages of my life. Much has been written of the legacy left by Arthur Ransome who inspired so many go camping, fell walking or sail the seven seas. ![]()
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