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rope-bound and looped at the corners or hemmed 

 at the edges and reinforced at the corners, where 

 grommets are inserted with the blunt-pointed 

 ends of three crossed sticks thrust into these corners, 

 the sticks being bound together at the middle, makes 

 a stool not to be sneezed at. 



Before we proceed any further with this discus- 

 sion we must have special concern for our matches. 

 If you have but once experienced the feeling of 

 miserable desolation in the wet woods without the 

 means of producing that thing most desirable of all, 

 the cheer of a fire, you need not be impressed with 

 the idea that those matches must be stored in an 

 absolutely water-tight tin receptacle. A shaving- 

 stick metal holder makes a handy one. And it is n't 

 a bad stunt always to have on your person a special, 

 emergency supply of matches further protected by 

 previously having had their heads dipped in shellac 

 or melted paraffine. 



Moreover don't overlook the value of a store of 

 dry, small pine-kindlings mere slivers of wood 

 that you bring from home, included amongst your 

 duffle, and guard jealously by taking them to bed 

 with you, under the blanket, and reserve strictly for 

 actual need. The war-introduced " trench torch " 

 or candle is also a great boon when starting a fire 

 under dam(p), bad circumstances. 



Some of these things we have discussed thus far 

 are in truth but the A B C's of the expert woodsman, 



