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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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member that it wasdesigned for the readers of this book. If milled lumber is used in building the shacks for thefour courts, it should be camouflaged with paint or stain soas to look rustic. It may be roofed with boards and theboards covered with tar paper, or any of the modem roofingmaterials to be had, but in that case the roof should becamouflaged by laying poles over the top of it, or, if polesare not available, covering the top mth sods. You see the idea is this: we are having a Council Fire—not something else— and we want the thing to look wild andrustic because that is part of the game, and if we are compelledto go to the lumbeiyard for our material, which most of uswill have to do, then we must conceal this fact as far as pos-sible by camouflage. In front of the South Court on Fig. 371is the fire-place made of flat stones set in the earth. Council Fire Ceremonies On entering the council grounds always enter from theeast, salute Too-le-ze, the white wolf, then go across the
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17 COUNCIL GROUNDS AND FIRES 259 Ghost Walk with the sun to the West Court, and saluteKor-le, the hear; about face and march ))ack to the S% the one on the left the flag of the school, the troop orthe club to which the council fire belongs. The center of the council fire may be occupied by a*Liberty Pole, which is the good old

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