General Scouting Outdoors 



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heating an ordinary clear glass quart bottle pretty hot in the 

 fire, then dipping the bottom part in cold water; this causes 

 the bottom to crack off. The candle is placed in the neck, 

 flame inside, and the bottle neck sunk in the ground. 



CAMP LOOM AND GRASS MATS 



The chief use of the camp loom is to weave mats for the 

 beds of grass, straw, hay, or, best of all, sedge. I have 

 made it thus: 



Fittd. Crojj-iir 



A 3-foot cross-bar A is fast to a small tree, and 

 seven feet away, even stakes are driven into the ground 

 8 inches apart, each 3 feet out of the ground. 



Five stout cords are tied to each stick, and to the cross- 

 bar, keeping them parallel. Then, between each on the 

 cross-bar is attached another cord (four in all) the far end 

 of which is made fast to a loose cross-bar, B. 



One fellow raises the loose cross-bar B, while another 

 lays a long bundle of grass tight in the corner C. Then B 

 is lowered to D, and another roll of grass or sedge is tucked 



