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The Book of Woodcraft 



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Birch-hark boxes and baskets. These are easily made if 

 the bark be softened in hot water before you shape it. The 

 lacing is spruce roots, also softened with hot water. 



(See "How to Make Baskets," by Mary White, Double- 

 day, Page & Co., $1 plus lo cents postage.) 



SOUVENIR SPOONS 



A good indoor activity of Scouts is the making of souve- 

 nir spoons. Some craftsmen are clever enough to make 

 these out of wood or of silver. I have found that the best, 

 easy-working material is bone, deer antler or horn. Go to 

 any big drug shop and get one of the 25-cent horn spoons. 

 It is already of a good spoon-shape, of course. The handle is 

 hard, smooth, and ready to be ornamented with any device, 

 cutting it with knife or file, into the owner's totem, or the 

 clan or the tribal totems which naturally suggest themselves. 



