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Tliiofs to Know and Do 263 it with A biidcet of water, the blow of a shovel, or evtt ct a stick. . . . , # . These are some of the rilee that kad to lafety: Never build a big fire, x here is a certain type of madman who thinks a camp is incomplete without a "bonfire." All such folk shouW be to jail. No Woodcrafter ever builds a bonfire. It is wasteful, uucomfortab'. isocial, dangerous, and cnmmal. Let your fire be the little m - uf the cook or the Council Ring. Do not build it on piles of logs, rotten wood, or rubWsh, nor near them, nor on bog- Try to have it on the bare ground; and so that you can go all around it on bare ^>ound. In wtody weather or dangerous places dig a hole or waU up the fire with stones, sods, green lofi, sand, or other things that do not bum. ^ . ^ ... 1.. Never leave a camp or the campfire without extmguishing cverv spark, using water and plenty of it, if you love your country or Uie good green woods. Never leave the campfire burning even for a rfiort time without some one there to guard it. Never throw down burning matches or Ughted cigars or cigarettes. I suppose half of the fires come from this cause. These are offered you as Woodcraft rules, offered that your acceptation may rest on love of the thing protected. But do not forget that any breach of this is listed as crime m the law of the land and may be visited by heavy pains and penalties. But we hope that the Woodcraft Girl will not need to think of anything but the beauty of the blessed woods ami be ready and eager at all times to do her share toward keeping these for the joy oi havmg them.