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6 Boy Scouts Through woodcraft, then, a boy may train his eye, and be able to observe things that otherwise would pass unnoticed. In this way he may be able to save animals from pain, as a horse h'om an ill-fitting harness. He may also be able to see little things which may give him the dew to great things and so be able to prevent harm and crime. Torture (Note lke ke?k or bearing-rein) Comfort Besides woodcraft one must know something of camp ilfe. One of the chid characteristics of the scout is to be able to live in the open, know how to put up tents, build huts, throw up a lean-to for shelter, or make a dugout in the ground, how to build a fire, how to procure and cook food, how to bind logs together so as to construct bridges and rafts, and how to find his way by night as well as by day in a strange country. Living ha the open in this way, and m?ing friends of the trees, the streams, the mountains, and the stars, gives a scout a great Camp loom, for maki%e mats and n?ttresses deal of confidence and makes him love the natural life around him, To be able to tell the difference between the trees by their barkand leaves is a source of pleasure; to?be?abl?e a