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charge of paper in the flames. If the 
flash gun is used, you can release the trig¬ 
ger by means of a black thread, from your 
place in the group. Wait until both flashes 
ignite before moving—then close the lens 
immediately and do not forget to wind a 
fresh section of film into position. More¬ 
over, do not wave an electric flashlight 
around in front of the camera while the 
lens is open. It is best to make two or 
three negatives; at least, it has been my 
experience that, at first attempt, one mem¬ 
ber of a group will move between the first 
and second flashes, a fact which the lens 
uncompromisingly records. Many simple 
and easy variations of this arrangement 
may be made. The realism of the pic¬ 
ture depends on making the flash by the 
camera so much more general than that 
in the fire, that no cross lighting will ap¬ 
pear to suggest the presence of outside 
light sources. This means, also, that shad¬ 
ows thrown by both lights should follow 
the same general direction closely, from 
the viewpoint of the camera. 
T HUS far every phase of outdoor pho¬ 
tography considered has dealt with 
the making of the negative, with a 
few hints on technique and story telling 
punch. Now for the aim and end of all that 
has gone before—the print. At the risk of 
getting in hot water with the editor, I am 
going to cast reflections on publishers in 
general—a boomerang which raps me, too, 
Mr. Editor, please remember. Most pub¬ 
lishers ask for “contrasty prints on glossy 
paper—no enlargements wanted.” In the 
case of the sportsman, the publisher lets 
down the bars on the latter if they are of 
good definition, as we cannot carry 5x7 
view cameras or heavy calibre Krupps on 
our trips. But in many cases the call for 
contrasty prints is misleading; the print for 
reproduction in Forest and Stream, for in¬ 
stance, should not be one made so contrasty 
that detail in the highlight is lost and the 
shadows are coal black—“soot and white¬ 
wash.” First make the print on the paper 
which will give the best result possible. 
Then make another print, giving it a trifle 
more exposure, and developing it until it is 
a little darker than the normal print, but 
not darker in the highlights. This can be 
done with any of the American made gas¬ 
light papers or on the printing out papers 
used by some workers. By working in this 
fashion, all the detail is retained in both the 
highlights and the shadows, and in the 
halftone reproduction the extra color will 
be automatically lost. I do not mean that 
an overexposed and under-developed print 
should be made, but simply that exposure 
should be full enough to allow development 
to a tone slightly darker than the normal 
print. If this method is followed, the re¬ 
production will be pleasing to you and 
those of us who read your yarn and delight 
in your pictures. And as a closing remark 
I should like to say that the most gripping 
yarns can be told by the everyday run of 
that royal good fellow—the outdoorsman— 
and that if he feels lacking in literary abil¬ 
ity, he can fall back on his camera to put 
a punch into every situation that arises 
when he is on the trail. 
WOODS LOGIC AND CAMPING COMMON SENSE 
THE HARD-HEADED WISDOM THAT TEACHES A MAN HOW TO ESCAPE UNCOMFORT¬ 
ABLE PREDICAMENTS IS BETTER THAN A KNOWLEDGE OF THE MEANS OF ESCAPE 
By BLACKHAWK 
S EVERAL years ago a man sought to 
make himself famous in print by so¬ 
journing for several weeks, unclad 
and unequipped in any way, in the woods 
of northern Maine. This sophisticated 
wild man betook unto himself a state of 
nature, having wagered that he would 
emerge from the forest at the appointed 
time decently if not fashionably clothed 
by his own hands and with no injurious 
depreciation of flesh, put on or kept on his 
bones by his skill in providing food from 
the resources of nature. As these re¬ 
sources were straitened somewhat by the 
absence of firearms, steel or matches—and 
the year was in the sere and yellow leaf— 
the test was a severe one. Judged by the 
great amount of print paper (it cost less 
in those days, however) used in exploiting 
the feats of this intrepid adventurer, the 
experiment was a success; but from the 
viewpoint of Truthful James it is best de¬ 
scribed as “interesting,” than which there 
is no more elastic term, for the tales of 
said adventurer have placed him in the 
honorable ranks of Baron Munchausen, 
Ananias, Kaiser Bill’s victorious generals 
and Doctor N. Pole. 
Now, suppose you were stranded in the 
woods—what would you do? Perhaps you 
have spent many a pleasant hour day¬ 
dreaming over this remote possibility. In 
your mind’s eye you too have built pre¬ 
carious fires without the faintest smell of 
a match, have slain deer and bear by an¬ 
cient Indian methods, captured rabbits in 
snares made of the fine, tough sinewy roots 
of the spruce tree and slept in comfort 
under the stars unmindful of zero weather. 
But these are day-dreams—it is all very 
well to be able to do those things if grim 
Necessity demands, but the hard-headed 
common sense that teaches a man how to 
be sure to always have on hand matches— 
dry matches—is a thousand fold more val¬ 
uable than the pleasant knowledge of how 
to make a fire without them. It is hard 
to conceive a situation in which a man 
need be without matches unless that pre¬ 
dicament is brought about by his own stu¬ 
pidity or carelessness. The man who is 
stupid or careless in the woods may have 
to pay the penalty for these crimes, but 
he deserves his punishment. It is an easy 
matter to carry a well-filled waterproof 
matchbox always on the person. String it 
around your neck, if need be, and you are 
afraid to place it in your clothes for fear 
that some untoward accident may rob you 
of them. Once in an argument on this sub¬ 
ject a hunter said to me, “The camp might 
burn down in the night and I would have 
to get out with no clothes and no matches.” 
And it was no easy matter to persuade him 
that a burning camp might be conserved to 
use in place of matches for some time. 
When in the woods use matches always 
as if the supply were very limited, then you 
will never run short and have to use your 
emergency box. Light your pipe from a 
burning splinter of wood—it makes it taste 
better; do not build up a fresh fire every 
day, if camping in one spot—bank your 
fires as carefully as did your great-great¬ 
grandfather in the days when a cold hearth 
might mean a long trip to the nearest 
neighbor to “borrow fire.” 
Remember, your emergency box of 
matches is the only supply you can abso¬ 
lutely depend upon. Do not be stupid or 
careless in looking out for its safety. 
I F one is lost and can keep his head, the 
occurrence becomes an adventure. The 
sensible method is to try reasonably to 
find camp, and failing, to wander slowly 
until one strikes a brook and there make 
camp and await the coming of the party 
that will surely begin a thorough search for 
you within twenty-four hours. Build your 
fire and make your bodycomfortable in some 
sort of shelter. You have read of many 
kinds in the columns of Forest and Stream 
so you have no excuse to offer if you are 
not able to rig up a good one, even-without 
an axe. You have your knife, of course. 
The same commonsense that has taught 
you to carry matches has said its word of 
wisdom about a knife. The lack of food 
may worry and annoy you—it cannot kill 
you for many days so long as you drink 
plenty of water from the friendly brook. 
You will, of course, eat berries, if you find 
any, and the pungent leaves of the winter- 
green; try also the tender inner bark of 
the birch and the tiny beech seedlings. 
The water will, however, be your main¬ 
stay, so remain close to it. 
Do not neglect the fire as it serves as 
protection against the mythical bloodthirsty, 
prowling animals that infest the most 
harmless forest in close proximity to the 
lost man. Be sure to smudge it frequently 
with leaves so that its dense smoke will 
guide the rescue party to you. 
A SOVEREIGN remedy for the pain¬ 
ful skinned knuckles which seem to 
be a sort of penalty for the bliss of 
living in camp is the limpid viscous liquid 
that fills the “blisters” on fir trees. Prick 
the blister with a clean pointed twig, place 
the drop of aromatic liquid on the sore 
or raw skin, bind up in a clean piece of 
cloth, if you have it, or place a clean 
birch or maple leaf or a bit of birch bark 
over the wound and it will generally be 
healed over night. These fir blisters have 
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