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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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ay be bent down and bound with astring or tape made of green bark, and so fastened to themain stem as to form a loop which will easily slip over thewaugan-stick as in Fig. 63. Fig. 62A shows a handy hitchwith which to make fast the bark binding. When the waugan-stick has been thrust through the loopof the gallow-crook, the former is replaced in the crotchesof the two forked sticks, as in Fig. 63, and the pot or kettle,pail or bucket, is hooked on to the lower fork. You willnote that the lower fork is upon the opposite side of themain stick from that from which the switch prong of theupper fork springs. This arrangement is not necessary tomake the pot balance properly over the fire; the same ruleholds good for aU the other pot-hooks.* The Pot-claw Will be best understood by inspecting the diagrams (Figs.64, 65 and Q6), which show its evolution or gradual growth.By these diagrams you will see the stick is so cut that the* The pots will balance better if the notches are on the same side.
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HOW TO LAY A GOOD COOKING FIRE 61 fork may be hooked over the waugan-stick aud the cookingutensils, pots or kettles may be hung over tlie fire by slip-ping their liandles into the notch cut in the stick on the sideopposite to the fork and near tlie lower end of the pot-claw.This is a real honest-to-goodness Buckskin or Sourdoughpot-hook; it is one that requires little time to manufactureand one that is easily niiide wherever sticks grow, or whereverwhim sticks or driftwood may be found heaped uponthe shore. The Hake Is easier to make than the pot-claw. It is a forked sticklike the pot-claw, but in place of the notch near the lowerend a nail is driven diagonally into the stick and the kettlehung on tlie nail (Figs. 67 and 68). The hake possesses thedisadvantage of making it necessary for the camper to carrya supply of nails in his kit. No Sourdough on a long andperilous trip loads himself down with nails. A hake, however,is a very good model for Boy Scouts, Girl Pioneers, and hikersof

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