[Transcriber's note: Italics rendered as: italics.]
WOODCRAFT AND CAMPING
by "Nessmuk"
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK
This Dover edition, first published in 1963, is a slightly abridged and edited republication of the work published by Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York, in 1920 under the title Woodcraft.
International Standard Book Number: 0-486-21145-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-21680
Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Preface
Woodcraft is dedicated to the Grand Army of "Outers," as a pocket volume of reference on--woodcraft.
For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are withered before their prime By the curse paved in with the lanes and streets.
And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine; And death stalks in on the struggling crowd-- But he shuns the shadow of oak and pine.
NESSMUK.
Contents
CHAPTER I 1
Overwork and Recreation--Outing and Outers--How to Do It, and Why They Miss It
CHAPTER II 6
Knapsack, Hatchet, Knives, Tinware, Rods, Fishing Tackle, Ditty-Bag
CHAPTER III 13
Getting Lost--Camping Out--Roughing It or Smoothing It--Insects--Camps, and How to Make Them
CHAPTER IV 28
Camp-Fires and Their Importance--The Wasteful, Wrong Way They Are Usually Made, and the Right Way to Make Them