HOW TO 
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It sometimes becomes necessary for men 
traveling in a wild country to dig out a 
log canoe. There are various circumstances 
that may overtake a man in the woods or in 
the mountains, and that may lead to this 
necessity. In other cases a man may just 
simply want a canoe without being compelled 
to have it; and if all frequenters of the forest 
knew how easy it to build one, more 
canoes would have been made and used 
is 
BUILD 
SHIELDS. 
A LOG CANOE. 
I always seek the hardest work I can find 
when I go into the wilds, and I do as 
much of it each day as I can stand without 
collapsing. Some doctors will tell you that 
in exercising you should stop just short of 
fatigue. I do not agree with them. I 
make it a rule to stop just short of where I 
should drop dead if I kept on. I 
believe this is right. At any rate, a cam- 
paign of that kind, of a month, 2 months, 

FINISHING OFF THE BOTTOM. 
The picture was not light struck, as you may imagine. 
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The white spot is caused by a smudge, 
which we had to build to keep the mosquitoes from eating us. 
than ever have been. When I say easy I do 
not mean that a canoe can be made without 
shedding several buckets of perspiration; 
but that is good for any man. In fact, it is 
just what every man who has been shut up 
in an office needs. It is good for his soul 
as well as his body to go into the woods, 
swing an axe, pull oars, climb hills, or do 
some other kind of manual labor which will 
cause him to sweat out the accumulation of 
impurities in his system. 
or 3 months, always puts me in trim for 
any other kind of hard work or trouble that 
may come to an ordinary mortal. 
Therefore, I say that any able bodied 
man who may find himself in a forest, near 
a body of water, and who may want a 
canoe, will find it easy to build one. 
Wright and I went to Spray lakes, 30 
miles from Banff, in August last and 
camped near a tract of green timber. Most 
of the forests in that region have been 

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