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Identifier: americanboyshand00bear (find matches)
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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til the pieceof kindling looks like one of those toy wooden trees one usedto find in his Noahs Ark on Christmas morning (Fig. 37). When a backwoodsman finishes three or more sticks he setsthem up wigwam form (Fig. 38). The three sticks havingbeen cut from the centre of a pine log, are dry and mayberesinous, so all that is necessary to start the flame is to toucha match to the bottom of the curled shavings (Fig. 38). Before they do this, however, they are careful to have asupply of small slivers of pitch pine, white pine or split pineknots handy (Fig. 36). These they set up around the shavedsticks, maybe adding some hemlock bark, and by the timeit is aU ablaze they are already putting on larger sticks ofash, black birch, yellow birch, sugar maple or oak. For be it known that however handy pitch pine is forstarting a fire, it is not the material used as fuel in the fireitself, because the heavy smoke from the pitch blackens upthe eooking utensils, gives a disagreeable taste to the food,
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HOW TO )5UILI> A FIRE 41 spoils the coffee and is nol a pleasant accompanimenteven for a bonfire. In the North woods, in the land of the birch trees, green))irch bark is universally used as kindling with which to starta fire; green birch bark burns like tar paper. But whetherone starts the fire with birch bark, shaved pine sticks ormiscellaneous dry wood, one must remember that Split Wood Burns much better than wood in its natural form, andthat logs from twelve to fourteen inches are best for splittingfor fuel (Fig. 4^2); also one must not forget that in starting afire the smaller the shvers of kindling wood are made, theeasier it is to obtain a flame by the use of a single match(Fig. 30), after which the adding of fuel is a simple matter. Afire must have air to breathe in order to Kve,that is a draught,consequently kindling piled in the little wigwam shape isfrequently used. Fire-dogs For an ordinary, unimportant fire the turkey-lay**(Fig. 54) is handy, but for camp-fires and cook

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