On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls

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useful article of outdoor things, the entire camp takes a pride in your work and the simple but practical and usa

experience you will be surprised to find what a delightful life can be lived at camp with but few belongings and the simplest

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alf feet or more above the ground. Cut two rustic braces and nail the front of the shelf on the top ends of these supports; then nail a strip of wood across the tree as a cleat on which to rest the back of the shelf; fit the shelf on t

to the rounded tree, but if you desire to have it so, mark a se

ong, slender sticks lashed securely close together on two side sticks

, cover the top with birch bark or

nother nail. The towel may hang over the extending end of the cleat, and you can make a small bark dish

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ees, and boxes, when obtainable, must be your outdoo

camp-cupboard, hammock-f

ight on opposite sides of both trees, get two strong poles (green wood), fit them in the wedges and nail them to the trees; then lash them

oles, fastened to the trees at a proper distance above the seat, would give a straight back, if a back

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at on the surface by covering it with birch bark tacked on smoothly. Having previously fastened two other poles across from tree to tree, as you did when making the seat, you can lift the table top and lay it on the two foundation poles; then bind it in place and the t

only have the forked-stick legs shorter, raising

uit-stick, and b

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t when nailed to a tree near the cook-fire. Hang a door on the cupboard which will close tight and fasten secu

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e top branchlets of balsam, spruce, hemlock, or pine for the brush part, you can make a broom by binding the heavy ends of the bran

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takes standing upright, and use two long poles with branching stubs at equal distance from the bottom, for the sides and

e top stick on the canvas strip must be placed in the same crotches, but in front

at the row of nails will come on the under side of the stick. Turn in the edge first that the nails may go through the double thickness of cloth. Adjust this canvas-covered stick to the top of the chair, allowing the cloth to form a l

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ng pole from the tent ridge-pole

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er, one for the head and one for the foot, also two long, strong, green-wo

the same kind of pins make a case on each side of the blanket fold; then run one of the poles through each case. Chop a notch near each end of the two short logs; in these notches place the ends of the poles and nail them securely. Have the sh

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anket mattress can be a hammock and swing between two trees, having been a

that will hold fluid

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ter; when it is pliable cut one plate the size you wish, lay it on a flat stone or other hard substance and scrape off the outside bark around the e

in an upward turn while the bark is wet, using

handle can be made and carried on the ar

ng handles. When necessary to sew the edges of bark together, always have the bark wet and soft; then lap the edges and use a very coarse darning-needle with twine of inner-bark

tlet or branchlet of pliable wood is sewed, with th

he round or oblong bottom on the lower edge of the bark circle. In this case it is not easy to lap the

ding to the diagrams and fastening the folds near the top

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ork or broiling-stick for bacon or other small pieces of mea

e same purpose by wedging the bacon

lar stick, not necessarily straight but longer, may do duty as a biscuit ba

iscuits, and a large flat-topped rock makes a

ith nail and hammer puncture a hole on two opposite sides near the top, and fast

r from a piece of thin split wood, an

with a crotch on one end and drive a nail slantingly into the wood near the bottom of the stick on which to ha

loop on one side holding the candle and the two ends of the bark extending out beyond the other side of the stake. Again the candle is stuck into a little mound of clay, mud, or wet sand. If you have an old glass bottle, crack off the bottom by pouring a little water in the b

e one is present; it is a dangerous experiment. Fire cann

s of your outdoor handicraft, and when the prints are made label each one with the month, date, and ye

as a whole, also of each separate shelter, both the outsi

e greatly interest

er be your friend