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RECREATION 



simmer there as long as possible until the 

 contents become of the consistency of thick 

 sonp. Add salt and pepper, and, if it be- 

 comes too thick, hot water, and be sure to 

 keep it stirring so that it will not adhere to 

 the bottom of the kettle and impart a 

 scorched taste to the stew. When it is thor- 

 oughly done dip it out with tin cups and sit 

 around the campfire and enjoy it, because all 

 that it requires to make a most excellent dish 

 of this is that it shall be sufficiently cooked 

 and well seasoned. If you have such a lux- 

 ury as a jar of olives, a little olive liquor 

 poured in while the mess is cooking will 

 give it a regular Delmonico flavor. In the 

 meantime, 



SOME POTATOES 



can be buried in the hot ashes at one end of 

 your fireplace and baked. You can tell when 

 they are done by stabbing them with a sharp, 

 pointed, slender stick. If they are not done 

 the potato will be soggy and offer some re- 

 sistance, but when fully done, after the stick 

 has penetrated the crust it will go through 

 the interior as easily as it will through flour. 

 A little salt on these is all that is necessary 

 to make them a palatable dish, but, of course, 

 they are improved by the use of butter. In 

 cooking the soup just described, which is 

 known in the South as a 



" burgoo/' 



they use a very large iron kettle and Stir it 

 with long-handled wooden spoons, which the 

 men cut out with their jack-knives; anyone 

 whose spoon strikes another must pay a for- 

 feit of some kind. If the girls are invited 

 to one of these "Burgoos" the nature of the 

 forfeit is easily determined; but when it is 

 only the boys the forfeit is generally of a 

 ruder and less pleasant nature than a kiss. 



AFTER THE " FEED." 



After you have had your feast you can se- 

 cure a board up against the trunk of a tree 

 or the fence, with a nail or two to hold it in 

 place. Then rule, with a piece of chalk, a 

 straight line down the centre of the board 

 from top to bottom. After this decide upon 

 a distance for a taw-line from this target and 

 then begin at once throwing hatchets at the 

 line drawn on the board. The Indians of 

 olden times were experts in 



THROWING THE TOMAHAWK, 



and many of the old white pioneers were 

 also adepts at this novel art. You will be 

 surprised how accurately you can throw a 

 hatchet after a little practice, and I have 

 seen a group of boys in Kentucky standing 

 forty feet from a target of this kind, stick 

 one hatchet after the other exactly in the 

 line and each hatchet so close to its neigh- 

 bor that the wonder was that all the handles 

 were not split. Let Daniel Boone make 



A TOTEM MARK 



of some kind on a piece of leather or cloth 

 which will be awarded to the scout making 

 the best score in throwing the tomahawk, 

 and the winner can wear the totem on the 

 breast of his hunting shirt just as the great 

 Daniel Boone wore the totem marks be- 

 stowed upon him by his admiring Indian 

 friends. Remember, boys, that any sort of 

 husky, outdoor sport is perfectly consistent 

 with your position as a pioneer, because all 

 those buckskin-clad ancestors of ours in- 

 dulged in athletic games, running and jump- 

 ing and wrestling being favorite pursuits as 

 well as turkey shooting and gander pluck- 

 ing. 



GANDER PLUCKING 



was a rude and cruel sport for the goose 

 or gander was tied fast to a horizontal plank 

 on the top of a pole and his neck, from his 

 head down, was plentifully daubed with soft 

 soap. Then the hunters gathered at the 

 backwood's festival, mounted their horses and 

 dashing by at full speed would strive to 

 grab the gander by his neck and jerk him 

 from his perch. It was rough on the gander, 

 but these rude, half savage men enjoyed the 

 sport, not because they were cruel, but be- 

 cause they were thoughtless. In the next 

 number of Recreation I will tell you how 

 to have a gander plucking without being 

 subject to any accusation of cruelty. In 

 other words, we will preserve the fun of 

 the game without tormenting the poor gander. 

 Wishing you all a very Happy New 

 Year, chuck full of fun, I will close by a 

 request that each fort will send in a report 

 to the Founder of what interesting things 

 they have been doing that we may publish 

 these reports for the benefit of the other 

 forts. 



OUR SLOGAN 



m Since the boys have been asking for a dis- 

 tinctive cry of their own, we here give one 

 gotten up in college style which is appro- 

 priate for the Sons of Daniel Boone : 



Wow ! Wow ! Wow ! 

 Row ! Row ! Row ! 

 Gosh — all — hemlocks ! 

 Birckskin and leather socks ! 

 Waugh ! Waugh ! Waugh I 

 Rah! Rah! Rah! 



Cut-a-notch ! 



Cut-a-notch ! 

 Cut-a-notch soon ! ! 

 For wc are the Sons of Daniel Boone ! ! 



I want to say, boys, that this slogan of the 

 Sons of Daniel Boone is composed almost 

 entirely of old Western expressions, and 

 consequently is unique in its line. I trust 

 that it will please you all and be successful 

 in filling a long-felt want of which the boys 

 have been writing. Now, get all together 



