- >Primitive toys... I missed out knowing my Grandpa but my brother said that the old man would often make him whistles and other toys, like those little men that would dance . Anyway his favorite story is one where the old man spent several days making him a cross bow. Jimmy said he watched as the old man worked and listened to the stories about what he could do with this bow. When it was finished they went out into the back yard where Mom was boiling and scrubbing clothes. The old man put in an arrow and shot it and it passed by Mom with a whiz and went entirely through both the front and back walls of her chicken house. jimmy said Mom raised up and said " Dad, What is that thing?" He said " Babe, it is a cross bow I made for the boy" Mom said " Where did the arrow go? " He replied that he thought it went through the chicken house and Mom said " let me see it thing" When she got her hands on it she threw it into the fire. That was the last of the cross bow. Mary Russell bird@scrtc.com