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163 A Lithuanian club is made in the following way. A young oak

is selected and is slashed from the bottom upwards with an axe,

so that bark and bast are cut through and the wood slightly

wounded. Into these notches are thrust sharp flints, which in

time grow into the tree and form hard knobs. Clubs in pagan times

formed the chief weapon of the Lithuanian infantry; they are

still occasionally used, and are called nasieki, gnarled clubs.