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Title: The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941
Subjects: Camping Camping -- Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ts of the Sons of Daniel Boone (the scout organizationwhich preceded both the English Boy Scouts and the BoyScouts of America) who broke the record time in making firewith rubbing-sticks by doing it in twenty-nine seconds atthe Sportsmans Show at Madison Square Garden, NewYork. Mr. Forbush made this record in the presence of theauthor and many witnesses. Since then the same gentlemanreduced his own world-record to twenty-six and one-fifthseconds ; by this time even that record t may have beenbroken. The rubbing-stick is a picturesque, sensational and * It is not the buckeye of the Ohio and Mississippi Valley, but is thenut buckeye of California, iEsculus Californica.t The record is now eleven seconds. FIRE MAKING l^Y FRICTION 7 interesting method of building a fire, but to-day it Is of littlepnictical use outside of the fact that it teaches one to over-come obstacles, to do things with the tools at hand, to thinkand act with the vigor, j)recision and self-confidence of aprimitive man.
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ID- <jC^:^c Rubbing-stick Outfit Ever since the writer was a small boy he has read aboutmaking fire by rubbing two chips * or two sticks together,and he was mider the impression then, and is under the im-pression now, that no one can build a fire in that manner.When we find reference to rubbing-sticks it is probably aslovenly manner of describing the bow and drill and theother similar friction fire implements. For the bow and drillone requires first a 8 CAMP-LORE AND WOODCRAFT Thimble (Figs. 1, lA, IB, IC and ID). This is a half round stoneor pebble, a half round burl or knot of wood, or it may bemade of soft wood with an inlay of a piece of stone. In thebottom of the thimble there is always a shallow hole or socket;see S on Figs. 1, lA, IB, IC, and ID. The thimble is aninvention of the Eskimos (Fig. IC); they keep the spindleupright by holding the pointed upper end of it in a hole (S)drilled into a piece of serpentine, or soapstone. The author has a thimble personally made for him

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