DAN BEARD AND THE BOYS 



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describing this article of a hunter's dress, 

 but still the request comes in with each mail, 

 so I have taken my own buckskin shirt and 

 made the accompanying patterns from it. 



THE MATERIAL 



may be of outing cloth, either dark blue or 

 buckskin color. Of course it is understood 



THE FRINGE. 



that the fringe, Fig. 6, must be sewed in the 

 back seam of the sleeves., and in the side 

 seams of the shirt ; it is inserted as shown by 

 Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10. Fig. 7 shows the inside of 

 one piece of cloth; Fig. 8 the outside of the 



DETAILS. 



other piece ; Fig. 9 a bit of fringe, and Fig. 

 10 shows the bit of fringe in the seam be- 

 tween the two pieces of cloth. F and G on 

 Figs. 7 and 8 are the same as F and G on 

 Fig. 10, and H, the top of the fringe on Fig. 

 9, is the same in Fig. 10. In these last dia- 

 grams the cloth is not shown stitched, but 



loose, so as to more plainly indicate just how 

 the fringe is inserted in the seams. Your 

 mother will know how to sew it. The sewing 

 may be done on the sewing machine, and 

 after it is finished according to directions 

 the bottom of the shirt may be neatly 

 hemmed and fringe sewed on the under side 

 or the bottom may be cut into a fringe or 

 left with only the hem, as suits the taste, but 

 all of the same fort must be alike. A leather 

 strap belt with buckle or a sash may be worn 

 about the waist. As for leggings, they may be 

 purchased at the store and the fringe added 

 by your mother. 



If you choose blue shirts let the fringe be 

 yellow, because that was always the color of 

 the fringe on the old backwoodsmen's shirts. 



The shirt may have ordinary cuffs, with 

 buttons, and button up in front like a coat. 



S. OF D. B. 



The late hot spell in New York made all 

 of Recreation's force wish that they were 

 sons of Daniel Boone and camping some- 

 where out of reach of baking pavements and 

 scorching stone walls, and the founder fled 

 to his camp on Big Tihk Pond in Pike 

 County, Pennsylvania, where he is now writ- 

 ing to the boys. He is not taking a vacation, 

 because he has not time, but he is working in 

 a cool log house on the banks of a small 

 lake, and the chipmunks are scolding outside, 

 and in the swail the teacher bird is calling 

 teacher ! teacher ! teacher ! When evening 

 comes the whip-poor-will across the lake will 

 wake up and repeat his own name as fast as 

 he can for a hundred and more times in suc- 

 cession without ceasing to take breath. The 

 other night I counted one hundred and eighty 

 times that this energetic long-winded bird re- 

 peated "whip-poor-will !" apparently before he 

 took a breath. Sometimes I imagine that the 

 papa bird is angry with his daughters and 

 calling upon mamma to whip-her-well ! 'Once 

 two of these birds flew down and sat on the 

 same stone with me and within reach of my 

 hand, both making a low clucking noise, 

 which I accepted as a friendly greeting. 



I quote the following from the New York 

 Times because of its bearing on boys' camps : 



The whereabouts of the President of the United 

 States to-night (July 18) is more uncertain than at 

 any time since his bear hunting expeditions in the 

 wilds of the Rocky Mountains this spring 



It is likely, however, that while this dispatch 

 is being written Mr. Roosevelt is sitting by a 

 blazing camp fire somewhere on the shores of Long 

 Island Sound telling hair-raising stories of the hunt 

 and the Western plains to ten listening youths who 

 make up his party. 



At 3 o'clock this afternoon a little flotilla of four 

 rowboats set out from the J. West Roosevelt pier 

 and struck out for the outlet to the Sound. A 

 fresh breeze was blowing and the surface of the 

 Sound was adance with rippling waves. In a mo- 

 ment everybody was aware that the President was 

 off for the camping-out expedition which has been 

 a regular yearly feature of his stay at Sagamore 

 Hill. To add a tinge of adventure to the expedi- 



