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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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gives up you will fallhelpless even under a small load; if the mind is strong youwill stagger along under a very heavy one. When I asked a friend, who bears the scars of the packstraps on his body, how it was that he managed to endurethe torture of such a load, he replied mth a grin that as soonas he found that to fight his pack meant to perish—meantdeath!—^lie made up his mind to forget the blamed thing andso when the pack w^earied him and the straps rubbed the skinoff his body, he forced himself to think of the good dinnershe had had at the Camp-fire Club of America, yum! yum!Also, of all the jolly stories told by the toastmaster, and ofthe fun he had had at some other entertainments. Oftenwhile thinldng of these things he caught himself laughing outloud as he trudged along the lone trail. Forgetting the hate-ful pack on his back. In this way, said he, with a winningsmile upon his manly and weather-beaten face, I learnedhow not to fight the pack but to Forget It! Then he braced
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THE USE OF DOGS—^L\X PACKING 157 himself up, looked at the snow-capped mountain range aliead,hummed a httle cowboy song and trudged on over tlie frozensnow at a scouts pace. Now that you know what a pack is, and what fightinga pack means, remember that if ones studies at school arehard, that is one*s pack. If the work one is doing is hard,difficult or tiresome, that is ones pack. If ones boss is crossand exacting, that is ones pack. If ones parents are worriedand forget themselves in their worry and speak sharply,that is ones pack. Dont fight your pack; remember thatyou are a woodcrafter; straighten your shoulders, put onyour scout smile and hit the trail like a man! If you find that you are tempted to break the Scout Law,that you are tempted at times to forget the Scout Oath, thatbeciiuse your aimp mates use language unfit for a wood-crafter or a scout, and you are tempted to do the same, ifyour playmates play craps and smoke cigarettes, and laughat you because you refuse to do so,

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