way all fires should be lighted), and coax
the blaze by adding dry shavings as required until there is sufficient
blaze to light the small wood which has been collected. This fire takes
patience and perseverance.

It is sometimes possible in very wet weather to pick up small wood that
has been protected from the rain; also to break off the dead wood of
trees or the small twigs on the ends of the limbs to start a fire.

Under no circumstances should a camper use artificial tinder of any
kind. No paper, excelsior or oil should be used in building a campfire,
and a Scout should need only one match.

Always build a fire where the wind will blow the smoke away from the
camp, and never fail to build it on the bare ground where there will be
no possibility of its creeping through the grass or underbrush into the
woods.

After a meal when necessary to burn garbage, do not throw a quantity
right on top of the fire to smoulder and cause a disagreeable odor.
Rather sprinkle it around the edges that it may dry before being
shoveled onto the coals. When necessary to burn papers, be careful that
a burning paper does not blow into nearby brush or woods.

The questions of fires and provisions for hiking are treated at length
in the Girl Scout Handbook.

A Deschutes River Fishing Trip in the Deep Forests of the Cascade Range
North Western Washington

_We are now in the mountains and they are in us,
kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver,
filling every pore and cell of us. Our
flesh-and-bone tabernacle teems transparent as
glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an
inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and
trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the
sun--a part of all nature, neither old nor young,
sick nor well, but immortal._
--_John Muir_

There were ten of us--our chaperones, a man and
his wife; a good all-round camp man, capable of
instructing in camp life, fishing and wood
knowledge of all kinds; our Captain and four Girl
Scouts.

We left Tacoma at seven A. M. by automobile,
driving three hours to the foot of Huckleberry
Mountain from which point we were to hike to camp.
Here we were met by a native of the parts who was
to carry a pack, as we had not enough men t