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so on, are more manageable when hung above the fire. 
The heat can easily be regulated, the pots hanging low 
at first to boil quickly, and then being elevated or shifted 
aside to simmer. 
“Set up two forked stakes about five feet apart and 
four feet to the crotches. Across them lay a green 
stick (lug-pole) somewhat thicker than a broomstick. 
Now cut three or four green crotches from, branches, 
drive a nail in the small end of each, or cut a notch 
in it, invert the crotches, and hang them on the lug-pole 
to suspend kettles from. These pothooks are to be of 
different length so that the kettle can be adjusted to 
different heights above the fire, first for hard boiling, 
and then for simmering. If kettles were hung from 
the lug-pole itself, this adjustment could not be made, 
and you would have) to dismount the whole business in 
order to get one kettle off. 
“If forked stakes are not easily found in the neigh- 
borhood, drive straight ones, then split the tops, flatten 
the ends of the cross poles and insert them in the clefts 
of the stakes. 
