General Scouting Indoors 



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Skookum Wild Cat 



Owl 



Eagle Johnny Bear 



The design should be sketched on with pencil or ink, then 

 realized by shaping the outline with file or knife. The inner 

 lines are merely scratched on the surface. 



In general, one should avoid changing the main outline 

 of the spoon handle or cutting it enough to weaken it. 

 Always, rather, adapt the animal to fill the desired 

 space. 



There are several purposes the spoon can answer: First 

 as a spoon in camp, especially when prizes are offered to 

 the camp that makes most of its own equipment; next, as a 

 salable article; third, as exhibition article when it is de- 

 sired to get up a fine exhibit of handicraft products illus- 

 trating camp Hfe. 



KNOTS 



The following are standard knots that an accom- 

 plished camper should know. Remember a perfect knot 

 is one that's neither jambs nor slips. 



