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WOODCRAFT
AND CAMPING
_by_
"_Nessmuk_"
[Illustration]
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