The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft . use, and judgment in the handling,you will avoid painful and may be dangerous or fatal acci-dents, and at the same time you will experience great joy inthe handling of your axe. Xot only this but you will acquiremuscle and health in this most \igorous and manly exercise. We are not telling all this to frighten the reader but toinstil into his mind a proper respect for edged tools, especiallythe axe. Etiquette of the Axe 1. An axe to be respected must be sharp and no onewho has any ambition to be a pioneer, a sportsman or ascout, should
The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft . use, and judgment in the handling,you will avoid painful and may be dangerous or fatal acci-dents, and at the same time you will experience great joy inthe handling of your axe. Xot only this but you will acquiremuscle and health in this most \igorous and manly exercise. We are not telling all this to frighten the reader but toinstil into his mind a proper respect for edged tools, especiallythe axe. Etiquette of the Axe 1. An axe to be respected must be sharp and no onewho has any ambition to be a pioneer, a sportsman or ascout, should carr^ a dull axe, or an axe with the edge AXE AND SAW 227 nicked like a saw blade. It may interest the reader toknow that the x>cncil I am using with which to make thesenotes was sharpened with my camp axe. 2. No one but a duffer and a chump wUl use another mansaxe without that otlier mans wLlhng permission. 3. It is as bad form to ask for the loan of a favorite axeas it is to ask for the loan of a sportsmans best gun or pet6shing rod or Axes and Sheaths 4. To turn the edge or to nick another mans axe Ls avery grave offense. 5. Keep your own axe sharp and clean, do not use it tocut any object lying on the ground where there is danger ofthe blade of the axe going through the object and striking astone; do not use it to cut roots of trees or bushes for the samereason. Beware of knots in hemlock wood and in cold weatherbeware of knots of any kind. WTien not in use an axe should have its blade sheathedin leather (Figs. 331, 332, 333 and 334), or it should be struck 228 CAMP-LORE AND WOODCRAFT into a log or stump (Fig. 335). It should never be left uponthe ground or set up against a tree to endanger the legs andfeet of the camper. Fig. 341 shows how a firewood hod ismade and used. How TO Sharpen Your Axe On the trail we have no grindstones, and often have re-course to a file Tvdth which to sharpen our axe; sometimes weuse a whetstone for the purpose. New axes are not
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