Camping With Old Ben 249 



" When you are in the woods you must 

 notice peculiarities in the trees and that will 

 keep you from getting lost. An old stump, a 

 spreading spruce, an ironwood tree, which is 

 not common, a hillock or a rock, all these 

 things are the guide-boards in the woods that 

 tell you the way back to camp. 



" But you needn't feel cut up about it, 

 Harry. There isn't any danger that you will 

 get so lost in this county that I could not hear 

 you screech. Now you may look me up 

 some dead sticks for firewood, if you can." 



Ben soon had a bright fire going between 

 three stones that he had arranged forming 

 three sides of a square. 



" It is always a good plan to place stones 

 in that way, Harry," he said, " so your fire 

 won't keep tumbling down as fast as it burns. 

 If we were real savages, instead of make-be- 

 lieves, starting the fire would be quite a proc- 

 ess, and it might take half an hour. We 

 would have to use a flint and some tinder, and 

 it would be quite a trick." 



I opened a can of salmon and it was soon 



