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The Book of Woodcraft 



FAR-SIGHT, OK. SPOT-THE-RABBIT 



Take two six-inch squares of stifl white pasteboard or 

 whitened wood. On each of these draw an outhne Rabbit, 

 one an exact duphcate of the other. Make twenty round 

 black wafers or spots, each half an inch across. Let one 

 player stick a few of these on one Rabbit-board and set it 



U inch a s. 



up in full Hght. The other, beginning at 100 yards, draws 

 near till he can see the spots well enough to reproduce the 

 pattern on the other which he carries. If he can do it at 

 75 yards he has wonderful eyes. Down even to 70 (done 

 3 times out of 5) he counts high honor; from 70 to 60 counts 

 honor. Below that does not count at all. 



HOME STAR OR POLE STAR 



Each competitor is given a long, straight stick, in day- 

 time, and told to lay it due north and south. In doing this 

 he may guide himself by sun, moss, or anything he can find 

 in nature — anything, indeed, except a compass. 



The direction is checked by a good compass corrected for 

 the locality. The one who comes nearest wins. 



