For playground, field, and forest; the outdoor handy book (1900)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 406
l to try. An Indian builds a small camp-fire and hugs it, a white man makesa roaring b i g fireand stands awayfrom it. In selecting acamping-place never forget thatthe presence of good firewoodin abundance is a matter of graveimportance. A standing dead ce-dar will furnish the best of kind-ling… … 38o Autumn quantity of green hardwood, maple, yellow birch, or beech,for fuel. Across the andirons lay all the fuel sticks inthe same direction parallel with each other; in thisposition they will burn slowly and smoulder for a longtime. A large tree, or, better still, a large rock at the backof…
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