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Things to Know and Do 281 it with a bucket of water, the blow of a shovel, or even of a stick. These are some of the rules that lead to safety: Never build a big fire. There is a certain tj^e of madman who thinks a camp is incomplete without a "bonfire." All such folk should be in jail. No Woodcrafter ever builds a bonfire. It is wasteful, uncomfortable, unsocial, dangerous, and criminal. Let your fire be the Uttle fire of the cook or the Council Ring. Do not build it on piles of logs, rotten wood, or rubbish, 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 ground. In windy weather or dangerous places dig a hole or wall up the fire with stones, sods, green logs, sand, or other things that do not bum. Never leave a camp or the campfire without extinguishing every spark, using water and plenty of it, if you love your country or the good green woods. Never leave the campfire burning even for a short time without some one there to guard it. Never throw down burning matches or Ughted cigars or cigarettes. I suppose half of tihe fires come from this cause. These are offered you as Woodcraft rules, oflFered that your acceptation may rest on love of the thing protected. But do not forget that any breach of this is Usted as crime in the law of the land and may be visited by heavy pains and penalties. But we hope that the Woodcraft Boy will not need to think of anything but the beauty of the blessed woods and be ready and eager at all times to do his share toward keeping these for the joy of having them.