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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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cause you need slack to straighten up yourtent poles. Next see that the back guy pole is perpendicular, afterwhich it is a very easy matter to straighten up the front poleand adjust the guy rope so that it will stand stiff as in Fig. 293. Remember, when you are cutting the ridge poles and theuprights, to select fairly straight sticks, and they should beas free as possible from rough projections, which mightinjure the canvas; also the poles should be as stiff as possibleso as not to sag or cause the roof to belly. Ditching Just as soon as your tent is erected and you feel likeresting, get busy on ditching; no matter how dry the weathermay be at the time, put a ditch around the tent that willdrain the water away from your li^Tng place. There is nopositive rule for digging this ditch; it varies according tosurface of ground, but the gutter should be so made thatthe water will run away from the tents and not to it, or standaround it (Fig. 294). Fig. 295 shows how to make a tent by -^W mi.
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14 CHCXISLVG A CAM? SITE 211 folding a flrxjr cloth or piece of tarpaulin; of course it musthave a tent fXile trj sup(X;rt the tr^p, and the flfxjr pifx-es mayhx; drawn together in the center. Make one out of a pieceof writing paf>er and you will leam how t/j do it, F>ecausealthough the papjer Is small, the folds would be jost the sameas if it was as large as a church. In sandy or soft grrjund it often taxes ones ingenuity tosupply anchors for ones tent; an anchor is a weight of sr^mesort to which the guy ropes may be attached. Fig 296 showsa tent anchored by billets of wood; these are all siipposedto be buried in the ground as in Pig. 308, and the groundtramplecJ down over and above them to keep them safe intheir graves. Fig. 297 shows the first throw in the anchorhitch. Fig. 298 the second throw, and Fig. 299 the completehitch for the anchor. Fig. 303 shows the knot by which theanchor rope is tied to the main line. Figs. 300, 301 and 302show the detail of tying this knot, whic

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