New Ideas for Out of Doors: The Field and Forest Handy Book |
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Page 304 - Parallel to each other, and at right angles to the direction of the top layer of brush, lay a number of lodge poles for binders (Fig.
Page 284 - PI. 139, places his right shoulder against the pack to steady it ; he then says : Pull. No. 2 tightens by steady pulls, and, without letting the rope slip back through the hook, gives the slack to No. 1, who takes it up by steady pulls.
Page 428 - I have put it in my list of good and useful books for young people, as I have many requests for advice from my little friends and their anxious mothers. I am. most happy to commend your very ingenious and entertaining book.
Page 317 - ... straight logs cannot be procured, it is often necessary to use a broad-axe to make them even ; in which case they should be chinked up with clay and moss, or, if procurable, with ordinary mortar while the mortar is soft, and chinked from the outside with logs, quartered as the one shown in Fig. i, marked V and W. This will make a tight, warm house in the winter and a cool one in the summer; but where they have the straight spruce logs the chinks are very small as in E, in Fig. i, and, in this...
Page 427 - It teaches how to make serviceable and useful things of all kinds out of every kind of material. It also tells how to play and how to make things to play with.
Page 231 - ... piled against the stakes is green wood. The ash-pit need not necessarily be as deep as the one shown in the cross section. The flattened logs each side of the pit are arranged thus: > , a wide space at the one end for pots and pans, a small space at the other end for the coffee or tea pots.
Page 340 - ... readers are of old American stock they may know that their own ancestors were content with a deerskin or an old blanket portiere. The proper idea is to make the best house and doorWay of which your limited time and tools will admit. THE BIRCH-BARK ROOF is so easily understood from the diagram ( Fig. 5) that it probably needs no further description. The reader may see by the illustration that the pieces of bark are laid so as to break joints and also to overlap like shingles ; it may also be seen...
Page 232 - W;th such a fireplace, anything cookable can be prepared for your table. Charcoal will ignite by contact with A Glowing Ember, and if you have but one live coal and can rake from the ashes a handful of bits of clean charcoal (Fig.