of its body. The other end of the stick, 

 which should be three feet long, is pushed 

 into the ground and the stick bent so as 

 to bring the fish directly over a bed of 

 live coals not over the blaze. By this 

 method several fish can be broiled at the 

 same time. On other occasions we have 

 built a bigger fire, with larger sticks of 

 wood, found some flat stones twelve to 

 fifteen inches across which we put in the 

 fire and when they were quite hot, 

 dragged them out, and laid our fish on 

 the stones to cook. This also is an ex- 

 cellent way to cook bacon and we some- 

 times employ it even when a frying pan 

 is handy. Of course, we washed the 

 stones in the brook before they were put 

 into the fire. But then, one can be quite 

 sure that the fire will kill any stray 

 microbe that the stone might harbor. 



Freshly peeled birch bark makes excel- 

 lent plates on which to serve primitive 

 meals such as described. 



Luncheon finished, and our clothes 

 dry, we discussed our next move. Since 



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