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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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tenderfeet have learned how to pack then it is theroper time to learn what to pack; consequently we putacking before outfitting, not the cart, but the pack beforele horse, so to speak. When the Boy Scout Movement started in America itad the good aggressive American motto, Be Sure YoureliGHT, Then Go Ahead, which was borrowed from thatelightful old buckskin man, Davy Crockett. A few years later, when the scout idea was taken up in-ngland, the English changed the American motto to Berepared; because the English Boy Scout promoter wasmilitary man himself and saw the necessity of preparednessy Great Britain, which has since become apparent to us all. And in order to be prepared to pack a horse, we mustrst be sure we are right, then go ahead and practice pack-ig at home. One of the most useful things to the outdoor person is a 126 126 CAMP-LORE AND WOODCRAFT Pack Horse All of us do not own a horse, but there is not a reader ofthis book so poor that he cannot own the horse shown byFig. 174.
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There are but few people in the United States who cannothonestly come into possession of a barrel with which to builda pack horse or on which to practice throwing the diamondhitch. They can also find, somewhere, some pieces of boardwith which to make the legs of the horse, its neck and head. PACKING HORSES 127 Fig. 168 shows tlie neck-board, and the dotted lines showwhere to saw the head to get the right angle for the head andears, with which the horse may hear. Fig. 169 sliows tliehead-board, and the dotted line shows how to saw off onecorner to give the proper shape to this Arabian steedsintelligent head-piece. Fig. 170 shows how to nail the head on the neck. Thenails may be procured by knockmg them out of old boards;at least that is the way the WTiter supplied himself wdth nails.He does not remember ever asking his parents for moneywith wliich to buy nails, but if it is different now^adays, andif you do not feel economically inclined, and have the money,go to the shop and buy them.

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