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242 Woodcraft Birch Bark Roll seventy straight rods of red willow (kinnikinik), gray wil- low, arrow-wood, or' any straight shoots, each about as thick as a pencil, when peeled, except one or two that are larger, up to half an inch thick; and all thirty inches long. Tie them up in a tight bundle with several cords until you get time to work them. Peel them, cut a slight notch in the butt of each rod, three-quarters of an inch from the end, and you are ready to make the bed. And here I may say that some folks, who could not get to the country to cut willow rods, have used the ordinary bamboo fishing-poles. These are sawed up in 30-inch lengths and split to the necessary thinness ; the butt end yields four or even five of the splints, the top, but one. This answers well, _ —" ( rae dst FY TT ee ct ee pam PHP tC Ce EE eT Ee ee ~ U The veeph frame used fn making She bed . one ved 1s in place. Cut No. 1 and three poles furnish material enough for the bed. This is allowable because, though the stuff is not of our own woods, it is American ; it grows in the Southern States. One or two fellows in town have made the bed of dowels from a furniture factory. | Now get a ball of cord, that will stand a 25-Ilb. pull, a ball of fine linen thread, and a piece of shoemaker’s wax, to com- plete your materials. If outdoors, you can stretch your cords between two small trees about seven feet apart, but it is much easier if you make a rough frame of strips or poles seven feet by three inside to work on. Cut four pieces of the cord, each about twenty feet long. Double each and tie a 3-inch hard loop in the middle. Twist these doubled cords and put them on a frame (Cut No. 1),