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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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, butif one were to spend a week in the same camp, it would bewell worth while and at the same time very interesting workto manufacture a neat Aures crane for the camp kitchen.The next step in camp kitchen fires will include what mightbe termed the pit fires, which will be described in the followingchapter. You have been told how to select the firewood, make thekindling and start a fire in the preceding chapter on how tobuild a fire; all you have to remember now is that in certainparticulars all fires are alike; they all must have air to breatheand food to eat or they will not live. In the case of the fire we do not call the air breath, butwe give it a free circulation and call it a draught. Wood isthe food that the fire eats and it must be digestible, a firewith indigestion is a fire fed Tvdth punky, damp wood care-lessly thrown together in place of well-selected dry splitwood which the fire can consume cleanly, digest evenly, andat the same time give out the greatest amoimt of heat.
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HOW TO LAY A GOOD COOKING FIRE 7T To produce a draught the fire must, of course, be raisedfrom the ground, but do not build it in a careless manner likea pile of jack-straws. Such a fire may start all right, butwhen the supporting sticks have burned away it will fall in aheap and precipitate the cooking utensils into the flames,upsetting the coffee or teapot, and dumping the bacon fromthe frying pan into the fire. Be it man, woman, boy or girl, if he, she or it expectsto be a camper, he, or she or it must learn to be orderly andtidy around camp. Xo matter how soiled ones clothes maybe, no matter how grimy ones face may look, the groundaround the camp-fire must be clean, and the cooking utensilsand fire wood, pot-hooks and waugan-sticks, all orderly andas carefully arranged as if the mihtary officer was expectedthe next minute to make an inspection. All my readers must remember that By Their Camp-fireThey Will be Known and sized up as the real thing oras chumps, duffers, tenderfeet and

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