THROWING THE SQUAW HITCH 



How to Make a Pack That Will Stay on a Horse 



BY DAN BEARD 



EVERY follower of Daniel Boone should 

 know how to pack an animal with his 

 camp dunnage in such a manner that it will not 

 slip or fall off on the trail, and this he may 



is a ring at one end of the cinch and a hook at 

 the other end of it. Make a loop of string and 

 tie it on a small forked sitck, as in Fig. 4, and 

 allow the loop to answer for the ring and the 



learn at home without even having a real ani- 

 mal to pack; for instance, if he takes a stick of 

 wood with a branch left upon it to represent 

 the head of the horse, as in Fig. 1, then put a 

 piece of cloth or a folded pocket handkerchief, 



to represent the horse's blanket, and tie it on 

 with two strings, as in Fig. 1, he will have a 

 good substitute for the real animal upon which 

 to practice, but it is necessary to have a substi- 

 tute also for an aparejo (as pronounced it 

 would be spelled ah-pahr-ai-ho in English). 



Capt. Mayne Reid calls it Alpereja. It is really 

 a sort of sawbuck saddle with a pair of sort of 

 stiff saddle bags, alforjas. This can be made 

 out of pieces of green bark, as in Fig. 2, which 

 is placed over the blanket as in Fig. 3, then 

 you must have a cinch; on the real horse there 



fork for the hook. Now then, tie another piece 

 of string, which answers for the 33-foot pack 

 rope of the packer, to the loop end of the string 

 and put the cinch underneath the horse, as in 

 Fig. 6. 



Take a cloth or any other object and fold 

 it up in a handkerchief, as in Fig. 5, and place 

 that upon the back of the wooden horse, as in 



Fig. 6, then a knot can be tied as it is in Figs, 

 9 to 16. 



