. My life among the wild birds in Spain . the nest—Trees too large toswarm up—Value of pendent boughs in some cases—Tree climbing withropes—Use of light casting-line and lead—How to get a rope over ahigh bough—Ascending with the aid of a rope—Arrival at branches—Transition from rope work to climbing—Extra large trees—Climbing by successive stages with rope—Climbingirons—A nasty accident—Irons and ropean ideal plan—Dress for tree climbing—Uses of light line and fishing creel. HE art of tree climbing, for art it is,exists in an embryonic form in mostschoolboys. Most lads howeverdiscontinue the p
. My life among the wild birds in Spain . the nest—Trees too large toswarm up—Value of pendent boughs in some cases—Tree climbing withropes—Use of light casting-line and lead—How to get a rope over ahigh bough—Ascending with the aid of a rope—Arrival at branches—Transition from rope work to climbing—Extra large trees—Climbing by successive stages with rope—Climbingirons—A nasty accident—Irons and ropean ideal plan—Dress for tree climbing—Uses of light line and fishing creel. HE art of tree climbing, for art it is,exists in an embryonic form in mostschoolboys. Most lads howeverdiscontinue the practice just at theage when they are developingstrength and skill enough to be-come fair climbers. No better ad-vice for the youthful climber found than in Tom BrownsSchool Days and the famous storyof the Kestrels nest in the tall firin Caldecotts spinney has giveninspiration to many a lad, whilst allthrough my life, whenever I haveattained the decisive point in abig tree and felt sure of the nest, I. Tom Browns Sound Advice 59 have mentally ejaculated with Scud East All up with the oldMagpie now. Toms precept, You cant hurt if you get agood hand-hold. Try every branch with a good pull beforeyou trust it and then up you go! is unequalled in our lan-guage. To this I would add Always get a hand-hold andfoot-hold as near as possible to the trunk or branch you may beon. By keeping these two rules in mind 1 have come with safetyout of many hundreds of awkward and dangerous trees. Tobecome a bold and successful tree climber does not require greatbodily strength, else 1 should have never climbed at all, nor dor,it require powerful muscles. What is wanted is quickness, agility,ready resource and good nerve. The first three enable a man towork his way up many a tree which would defeat the meregymnast whereas the last prevents him from being deterred bypossible dangers, and, above all, when he does get into troublehelps him out of it. When trees are n
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