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reach from bank to bank. These we placed across with 

 the help of the team, and fixed them firmly three feet apart. 

 Inside of each and tight against it we drove a row of strong 

 stakes leaving a gap or sluiceway for the water to run until 



the rest of the dam was finished. 

 This cribbing we now filled 

 with clay dug out of the bed 

 of the brook above the dam. 

 Hammering it down hard, and 

 covering the top with flat stones. 

 Finally we closed up the sluice- 

 way with stakes and clay like the rest of it, and in one 

 night the swimming hole fiUed up. Next morning there 

 was a little cataract over the low place I had purposely left 

 for an overflow. The water was four feet deep and many 

 of us there learned to swim. 



WHEN LOST IN THE WOODS 



If you should miss your way, the first thing to remember 

 is, Uke the Indian, "You are not lost; it is the teepee that 

 is lost." It isn't serious. It cannot be so, unless you do 

 something foolish. 



The first and most natural thing to do is to get on a hill, 

 up a tree, or other high lookout, and seek for some 

 landmark near the camp. You may be so sure of these 

 things: 



You are not nearly as far from camp as you think you are. 



Your friends wiU soon find you. 



You can help them best by signaling. 



The worst thing you can do is to get frightened. The 

 truly dangerous enemy is not the cold or the hunger, so 

 much as the fear. It is fear that robs the wanderer of his 

 judgment and of his Hmb power; it is fear that turns the 



