JUNE, 1917 
267 
OREST AND STREAM 
least bit of seaway, was beyond me. So I 
waited. 
Presently Mr. Jimmy appeared with an 
ordinary five-gallon coal-oil tin. He cut 
out the top, hammered down the rough 
edges of the tin until they were smooth, 
and with the aid of a spike perforated the 
tin in two places, on opposite sides of the 
can some four inches from the top. Then 
with his heavy clasp-knife he cut an ob¬ 
long opening some three inches from the 
bottom of the can, and leaving this fast 
at the upper edge, he bent the flap outward 
and up. This opening made the draft. 
Then, inserting two three-eighths inch 
steel rods in the perforations, he proceeded 
to show me how the sides of the can, pro¬ 
jecting above the grate formed by the two 
rods, kept a cooking dish or coffee pot 
from upsetting when the boat rolled. And 
the steel rods, protruding some four or 
five inches on each side, made convenient 
handles to turn the stove about to meet a 
shift in the wind.—This operation of 
course has to be performed with the aid 
of a holder, as the rods make warm han¬ 
dles while cooking is in progress.—About 
two inches of sand from the beach was 
placed in the bottom, and the stove was 
ready for business. 
Perhaps this is an old idea with some 
Forest and Stream readers, but it is a 
good one nevertheless. The writer has 
used one of the oil-tin stoves on the duck 
marshes, and also aboard a canoe, since 
his days of salmon fishing.—Wherever you 
use it, when you are through you simply 
dump the fire overboard and put your 
stove away ’til next time. 
F. V. Williams. 
A SIMPLE WAY TO MAKE 
SLIPPERY WADERS SAFE 
The first trip with a pair of new waders 
or boots makes them slippery, if the soles 
are not studded with hobnails. If they are, 
the nails soon wear and have to be filed 
sharp, or new ones inserted. The worst 
of it is that you never can tell just when 
the sole will pass from the state of safety 
to that of unsafety, or from the ability to 
hold fast on a sludgy smooth rock in rush¬ 
ing water to inability to do so. 
It is a good plan to carry with you two 
strips of burlap, about four inches wide 
and a yard long. They will occupy scarce¬ 
ly any space, if rolled tightly, and their 
weight is almost nothing. When the soles 
of your waders of boots become smooth 
or the nails wear down, bind these strips 
over the soles of your waders, as you 
would put on a first aid bandage for a cut 
in the middle of the sole of your foot. 
Leave the loose ends long enough to tie 
back of the ankle, or pin them with safety 
pins. Or you can fasten them with a couple 
of fish hooks or a long thorn or two. This 
burlap, strange to say, will wear for hours 
even in the water. And often in a few 
steps, its fibers will get filled with sand or 
fine gravel and bottom debris. This will 
make them “bite” through slime and sludge 
on .stones, and cling to submerged logs or 
catch on the rounding surfaces of large 
and small boulders. It turns a pair of 
waders dangerous in a rapid stream, into 
a safe pair. After the day is done, untie 
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