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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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ettles are suspended from itover the fire to boil water (Fig. 74). Telegr-^ph Wire Cooking Implements Many campers are fond of making for themselves cookingutensils impro\ised from ordinary telegraph wire. In theold time open fireplaces of our grandsires kitchen there weretrammels consisting of chains hanging down the chimney onwhich things were hooked by short pot-hooks to hang overthe fire; there were also rakens made of bands of iron withholes punched in them for the attachment of short iron pot- 64 C-A3IP-L0RE .\XD WOODCIt^^JT hooks (Pig. 76\ With these ancient implements in theirminds, some ingenious campers manufcicture themselvesrakens and short pot-hooks from telegraph wire (Fig. 77).By twisting the wire in a series of short loops, each loop canbe made to ser^e as a place for attaching the pot-hooks asdid the holes in the old-fashioned rakens. The advantagesthey claim for the telegraph -^ire raken are Hghtness and itspossibihts of being readily packed. ^^, ^4 ii^-^i^;:^. 42 f1
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On one of these rakens one may hook the pail as high oras low as one chooses (Fig. 7S); not only that but one may(Fig. 79) put a small pail mside the larger one, where laterit is full of water, for the purpose of cooking cereal withoutdanger of scorching it. The disadvantage of all these implements is that theymust be toted wherever one goes, and parts are sure to belost sooner or later, whereupon the camper must resort tothings with the bark on em,* hke the gallow-orook, thep>ot-claw, the bake, the gib, the speygelia, or the saster, or

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