You don't have to be Irish to make a sturdy walking stick or cane, known in Ireland as a shillelagh (pronounced shih-LAY-lee). In fact, the gnarled, hardwood wallopers (which the Celts carried as weapons or rabbit killers) are really pretty easy to craft. The traditional walking stick's name comes from an old Gaelic word meaning 'oak club,' and before the eighth century these weapons were made of oak cut from a great forest near the?
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