On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls. Adelia B. Beard

On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls - Adelia B. Beard


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The birch-bark dish that will hold fluids. Details of making 115 A bear would rather be your friend than your enemy 118 Making friends with a ruffed grouse 120 Found on the trail 122 Timber wolves 124 Baby moose 126 Stalking wild birds 128 The fish-hawk will sometimes build near the ground 131 Antelopes of the western plains 135 Good food on the trail 143 Fruits found principally in the south and the middle west 147 Fruits found principally in the north and the middle west 151 Fruits common to most of the States 155 Hickory nuts, sweet and bitter 159 Nuts with soft shells. Beechnut and chestnut 161 Poisonous and non-poisonous snakes 173 Plants poison to the touch 181 Plants poison to the taste 185 The white birch-tree makes a fine background for the beaver 191 Blacktail deer snapped with a background of snow 193 The skunk 195 The porcupine stood in the shade but the background was light 197 Photographing a woodcock from ambush 199 The country through which you pass, with a trailer in the foreground 201 Method of protecting roots to keep plants fresh while you carry them to camp for photographing 203 A rowboat is a safer craft than a canoe 206 Keep your body steady 208 Canoeing on placid waters 210 Bring your canoe up broadside to the shore 212 How to use the paddle and a flat-bottomed rowboat 215 The raft of logs 219 Primitive weaving in raft building 221 Learn to be at home in the water 225 For dinner 229 The veteran 231 Bends in knot tying 235 Figure eight knot 237 Overhand bow-line knot 237 Underhand bow-line knot 239 Sheepshank knot 239 Parcel slip-knot 241 Cross-tie parcel knot 241 Fisherman's knot 241 The halter, slip-knot, and hitching-tie 243 The fireman's lift 245 Aids in "first aid"
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