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[Transcriber's note: Italics rendered as: _italics_.]
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_
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_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.
Overwork and Recreation--Outing and Outers--How to Do It, and Why They Miss It
Knapsack, Hatchet, Knives, Tinware, Rods, Fishing Tackle, Ditty-Bag
Getting Lost--Camping Out--Roughing It or Smoothing It--Insects--Camps, and How to Make Them
Camp-Fires and Their Importance--The Wasteful, Wrong Way They Are Usually Made, and the Right Way to Make Them
Fishing, With and Without Flies--Some Tackle and Lures--Discursive Remarks on the Gentle Art--The Headlight--Frogging
Camp Cooking--How It Is Usually Done, with a Few Simple Hints on Plain Cooking--Cooking Fire and Out-Door Range
More Hints on Cooking, with Some Simple Receipts--Bread, Coffee, Potatoes, Soup, Stews, Beans, Fish, Meat, Venison
A Ten Days' Trip in the Wilderness--Going It Alone
The Light Canoe and Double Blade--Various Canoes for Various Canoeists--Reasons for Preferring the Clinker-Built Cedar
Odds and Ends--Where to go for an Outing--Why a Clinker?--Boughs and Browse
_Page_ "Nessmuk" _Frontispiece_ Knapsack and Ditty-Bag 7 Hatchet and Knives 8 Indian Camp 19 Shanty-Tent and Camp-Fire 24 Shanty-Tent Spread Out 26 Camp-Fire as it Should Be Made 33 Frog Bait 41 Three-Hook Gang 41 G. W. Hatchet 56 Out-Door Cooking-Range 58