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they could get birch bark. The method of making was 

 simple but laborious. Cut your log to the exact shape 

 desired on the outside, then drive into it, all along the side, 

 thin wire nails, an inch long, so that there should be one 

 every two feet along the side, and more on the bottom. 

 Now, hollow out the inside with adze or axe, till the nail 

 points are reached. Sometimes longer nails were used for 

 the bottom. The wood at bow and stern was, of course, 

 much thicker. 



CAMP HORN 



I wish every Camp would get a good camp horn or 

 Michigan lumberman's horn. It is about four feet long, 

 has a six-inch bell-mouth, and is of brass. Its sounds are 

 made by mouth, but a good player can give a tune as on a 

 post horn. Its quality is wonderfully rich, mellow and far- 

 reaching, and it can be heard for three or four miles. It is 

 a sound to stir the echoes and fill the camp with romantic 

 memories. 



SLEEP OUTDOORS 



As you drive through New England in the evening, 

 summer or winter, you must notice a great many 

 beds out of doors, on piazza or on sun-deck. Many of 

 these are beds of persons who are suffering from lung 

 trouble. They have found out that this is the way to cure 

 it. Some of them are the beds of persons who fear lung 

 trouble, and this they know is the way to evade it. 



Take, then, this lesson: If possible, every brave should 

 sleep out of doors as much as possible; not on the ground, and 

 not in the wind, but in a bed, warm, dry, and rainproof, and 

 he will be the better for it. 



