VIL General Scouting Indoors 



Handicraft Stunts 



LET each Scout carve a fork and spoon out of wood, 

 with his band totem on handle. 

 Make a needle case out of a fowl's leg or wing 

 bone, thus: Clean and smooth about three inches of the 

 bone plug up one end with a soft wood plug and make a, 

 wooden stopper for the other end. Then with the point of 

 a knife decorate the bone. The lines should be scratched 

 in deeply and then have black paint rubbed into them. If 

 no black paint is handy make a mixture of soot and pino 

 gum, with a little grease, butter or oil. 



Make a tackle box or ditty box 2x2x6 inches carved out of 

 solid wood. 



Make peach-stone baskets, of a peach-stone shaped with a 

 file. 



Turkey call. An interesting curio is the turkey call. 

 Take a small cigar box and cut off the end as in the figure. 

 Get a piece of slate about 2x3 inches long, or, faiHng slate, 

 take a flat piece of wood and rub it well with rosin. Draw 

 the two curved edges of the box Hghtly up this one way, and 

 it will make a wonderfully good imitation of a turkey call. 



A Chicken squawk. This is another call easily made. 

 Take any small round tin box — a condensed milk tin is 

 good — and make a hole through the bottom and into this 

 put a cord. A knot on the inside prevents the cord from 



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