
A Camp-Made Line Dryer, Fig.1 
le a chap is in a permanent camp, a 
dryer for the line can be rigged in 
less time than it takes to tell and the 
line dried every night, as shown in the 
drawings. Cut a crotched stick for 
SHAFT as indicated in “A” and “B”, 
together with the SIDE ARMS and 
CROSS BARS, as shown in “B”, “F” 
and “G’. Split, notch and tie, with 
string, or “bast” (the inner bark of 
basswood, i. e., Linden, or the fibers 
rolled from the young roots 
of the balsam, spruce or 
hemlock) as shown in “D”, 
“F”, and “G’. Next notch 
the shaft as indicated in 
“EK” to fit the side arms, and 
tie together, as in “I”, with 
other strips of string, fish 
line or bast, tied from side 
arm to side arm, on each 
side, when you will have the 
completed shaft and spool 
ready to tie to another 
crotch, as shown in “I”, on 
some near by limb, or cut 
and tied to a pole of tent or 
dining fly, the detail of 
which lashing is shown in 
‘H”. » SHAN DLEYsiseithe 
crook in the shaft, “A”, 
oa atte Yous #i abit and eS ae 
or if you must be fancy or 
it is too wet to fish, and time 
hangs high, cut your shaft 
of a straight stick (or cut 
off the crook) and build a 
“city” handle as shown in 
mae [ue 
FOLDING LINE DRYER 
(Fig. 2) 
HANDY little kink for 
the fly fisherman with 
his “tapered line,” as well as all the 
rest of the line casters is a place to 
store the wet line until dry, and then 
not have a bulky bit of duffle always in 
the way. Such a kink is given in the 
drawings in which “G” is the completed 
dryer “‘set up,” in which the base board 
is a piece of %” stuff, 20 in. long and 
8 in. wide. Uprights are of % in. stock 
(as is the cross piece on the base to 
which the uprights lock) 10 in. long, 
cut as shown in “D” to fit cross piece 
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and screwed NOT TOO TIGHT to base. 
The hole for the shaft is 1 in. from the 
top of the upright SPOOL. Is in two 
sections, the larger 12 in. long, over all, 
bored at the center for shaft, bored % 
in. at the ends for the cross pieces, 
which are 6 inches long. Shorter half 
of spool just fits within the larger as 
shown in “C” and “F”; SHAFT is 12 
in. long, passing through from the right 
upright, both halves of the spool, and 
the left upright far enough to put a 
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pin in, leaving the long end of the shaft, 
on the right side, to fit HANDLE, de- 
tail of which is shown in “E”’, which 
when once put together stays “‘put” ex- 
cept for the cotter pin in the end of 
the shaft. GUYS are placed on the 
sides of the spool as shown in “F” and 
“G”, which slip into small screw eyes. 
REEL seat is built as shown in “A” 
and “B”, to fit the reel to the base 
board and handle at the opposite end 
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eye is set in the end of the base from 
which to hang it flat and out of the 
Way as well as one on each side of the 
base board (at the opposite end) into 
which the grip snaps. 
HARRY IRWIN. 
How to Make Buckskin 
HE method which follows, if prop- 
erly carried out according to direc- 
tions, will make velvet buckskin, the 
kind made, sold and used by 
the western Indians. It is 
soft enough to be sewed on 
the ordinary sewing ma- 
chine, yet will outwear ordi- 
nary leather. Moccasins, 
pillows, gloves, etc., may be 
made from it as easily as 
from cloth. Deer are get- 
ting more scarce every year 
and we, each of us, should 
preserve every bit of the 
hides of those we kill and 
make them into some useful 
article, thereby prolonging 
the memory of that glori- 
ous hunt. 
If the hide you havé has 
been killed for a year or 
even during the past sea- 
son, soak it for about three 
days in water and when it 
is soft and pliable stretch 
it on the side of the house 
or barn and go over it care- 
fully with a dull knife, tak- 
ing all the flesh and fat off 
that may have adhered to 
the hide while skinning. To 
about a third of a barrel of 
water add three pounds of 
slaked lime and stir it up 
well; when you have all the 
hide cleaned off, take it down and place 
into your barrel of lime water. Allow 
it to remain four or five days more and 
you will note that the hair is beginning 
to slip. Now get yourself a piece of 
wood about as long as a joint of six 
inch stove pipe and about the same size 
around. Lay this on a table and go 
over it to be sure the surface is smooth 
and has no knots or other raised places 
in it. Plane it if necessary but be sure 
that it is smooth. Throw the deer hide 

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