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Figure 2. Old-Style Crane 
pots—a good feature. As the guide who 
sprang this remarked, it saves going all 
over camp to find your extra cups and 
pails when the next meal is in the making. 
Figure 3 is pretty much the same idea, 
but more elaborate. Two logs, good sized 
Figure 3. Note the Cup-Hooks 
ones, are rolled together. They should 
be, when possible, partly or perhaps wholly 
old timber—at least not green. The wind¬ 
ward end, or the one the wind is liable to 
blow from, is left slightly more apart than 
the other or leeward end. At each end of 
the fire-logs, a foot or more away, drive 
a fairly stout crotched stick into the 
ground far enough to make it solid. 
Place a horizontal pole in the crotches, 
and you are ready for anything in the 
cooking line. With your kettles hanging 
from the horizontal bar you can boil the 
coffee and potatoes and at the same time 
use your frying pan for the trout or early 
morning flapjacks. 
This fire, you will find, will smoulder 
away all night between the logs, saving you 
the necessity of starting one in the morn¬ 
ing. 
Figure 4 is more in the way of a regu¬ 
lar chef’s layout. And it requires more 
skill to build and a little more time. Set 
two fair-sized green logs, hewn smooth on 
one side, a few inches apart, and brace 
them with pegs driven into the ground on 
each side. Green sticks should be used 
for the pegs. Scoop out a small trench 
between the logs for the fire. 
If you have time, and the inclination, 
with very little lqbor you can put up a 
windguard that will help the cook a heap 
in his tasks. In fact it gives him a regu¬ 
lar backwoods cooking range. And if you 
are reasonably well equipped—not with 
junk, but with the right cooking utensils 
—he will be able to roast, bake or broil, 
as the case may be or the occasion de¬ 
mands, some dishes so tasty that only a 
mighty particular person will frown on 
them. 
The device shown in Figure 5 is the only 
one not literally “made in the woods,” but 
the hinges are nearly always obtainable 
even in the small town where you may be 
Figure 4. Permanent Fire-Back 
outfitting. If they are at hand, three ten 
or even twelve-inch strap-hinges, held to¬ 
gether with a small bolt, make a very con¬ 
venient and solid rack for coffee pot or 
frying pan; and one of its advantages is 
that you can fold it up and carry it in 
your pocket. 
Figure 5. Handy “Pocket Stove” 
THE SEAMLESS CANOE AT LAST 
A NEW KIND OF GLUE IMPERVIOUS TO WATER 
MAKES MOULDING FROM VENEER PRACTICABLE 
A NEW departure in canoe-building, 
that produces a craft without seams 
and without ribs, is the innovation a 
Michigan concern is putting on the mar¬ 
ket. It is moulded from one sheet of 
three-ply veneer, the secret of the process 
being the glue which cements the three 
sheetings together, which is impervious to 
the action of water or the elements. The 
veneer is shaped around the mould under 
hydraulic pressure. 
The result is a canoe without ribs, per¬ 
fectly smooth inside and non-leakable. It 
is said to be a much stronger and more 
durable craft than the ordinary, canoe, be¬ 
cause the three-ply veneer allows for the 
grain running in different directions, which 
gives great tensile strength. The canoe 
itself, owing to its shape, forms a natural 
truss so that the absence of ribs does not 
in any way detract from its durability. The 
veneer is difficult of perforation for the 
same reasons, and the absence of ribs and 
other strengthening parts used in the or¬ 
dinary canoe makes for lightness and ease 
of handling. 
Of course a canoe made from veneer 
glued together with ordinary glue would 
fall to pieces a short time after it hit the 
water. The making of the new canoe is 
the direct result of the discovery of a for¬ 
mula for a glue which is absolutely im¬ 
pervious to water. It has been subjected 
to severe tests, such as soaking for a 
long time, boiling at a high temperature 
and submerging in printer’s lye. It has 
stood up under all of these tests and the 
action of water upon it apparently only 
causes it to cling more tenaciously. 
The illustrations show the beautiful lines 
of the craft, and a great variety and com¬ 
bination of woods can be used without 
adding materially to the price. The seats 
are made of veneer, perforated, and the 
light and graceful appearance of the model 
will at once appeal to all lovers of canoe¬ 
ing. 
H. L. Haskell, the inventor, has a plant 
nearly equipped and expects to be turning 
out these canoes in quantity inside of the 
next two months. The factory building is 
located at Ludington, Mich 
