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Could survive

How would you build

sleep?

રી

shelter?

On what would you

How many fires could you light from one box of 'matches? Could you light fire after tho match supply had been exhausted?

What is a fire silck? What kind of fre would you moke? What wood would you use? Could you cook over a wood fire? Could you bake?

Would your diet be varied?

Do you know of a good wild sub- atitute for ten-and coffee?

Do you know the wholesome berries and wild fruits? The polson- ous plants?

What birds' eggs are fit to cat?·· Can you shoot?

Could you catch fish? Do you know the lures and baits?

Can you read a trail? Could you stal game? Do you know any woodcraft?

Story in the grass

A BLURRED print in the

mud, alone feather, a few drops of blood on the grass; these are sufficient to tell the story of an animal tragedy. Could you read that story?

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Could you find your way by the stara?

Can you find the Pole Star? Are you versed in weather, fore? What would you do if you beard the shrill rabbit?

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-You were placed in

a well-wooded, well- watered and game- stock country, miles away from civilisation, with only- A Powerful

rifle 1,000- pellets One box of matches

A blanket

A

air-

minimum warm clothing

of

A dixie, consisting of frying pan, saucepan and plate

One cwt. flour One packet salt

A. fishing rod and

tackle

100 yards string

An axe

death scream of A hunting knife

you if-

and red; spiders tightening their webs.

Friendship

with animals

IGNS of fine weather; birds fying high; spiders' webs

on hedges and bracken covered with dew on a misty morning; webs spun from branch to branch of trees.

The south wind brings heat; cast wind, clear and cold weather. Rain comes with the south-west wind.

The death scream of a rabbit may mean a free meal. A stoot-kllied rabbil is just as good to eat as one killed by the rific, or trop.

If a man badly needed companion- ship, he could fame a wild creature and take it as a peta young rabbit, a hedgehog, a squirrel, or, best of all, a young ofter. With a young otter as a friend and companion he would never feel lonely.

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No. 114 41919

May 9th Sigra 196

"With the aid of the axe and hunting knife a sound shelter can be

built."

but it is by no means impossible.

The means of survival aro at hand. Indeed, there are luxuries in the form of the ride, the shing 'rod and the salt. Making good use of these advantages every man should survive for some consider- to able time.

Could you?

Would it be a difficult task survive? To most people it would,

LITTLE SUMMER

SUMMER in WALES

1x

ab-

FTER months' sence I re- North Wales last week-end,

Lurned to

by Tom Stephenson

Two nights' travelling for two days on the hills may seem doubtful pleasure, but those days were worth it, and on the homeward Journey I wondered at my folly in slaying away so long.

It was nearing midnight when we reached Bettws y Coed. Everyone In the valley was abed, and not a solitary light was visible. But the moon was. riding high, flooding the hills with soft gold, streaming through the woods, and transforming the road into a river of light

Are you afraid of the darkness? Could you withstand the strain of dandelion (caten like watercress). on the nerves occasioned by the Test The green leaves of the wild night sounds in the woods; the rose are a good substitute for ten.

On the way to Capel Curig the River weird cries of hunting owls, the

The shoots of the common nettle varied music, enough in itself to make Llugwy welcomed us with "sweet and wind muttering in the trees, and the are good for soups, which could be hollow sound of fish rising in the seasoned by the use of wild thyme deepening roar indicated we were one thankful to be back in the bills. darkness of the lake?

and water mint. The roots Could you endure the loneliness chicory can be dried and used for and, if not, what steps could you coffee they can also be used as a take to gain companionship?

vegetable. Could you survive?

Building

a shelter

WITH the aid of the axe

The young fronds of common bracken cooked carefully are almost .indistinguishable from asparagus.".

Plants that are poisonous THER

THERE CE

many polson-

and hunting knife a sound shelter could be built. Three long sticks, or branches, erected tripod fashion, could serve as the frame- Monkshood, the root of which is work of the shelter, these being thatched by bracken, heather, or

grass.

0 plants, including:-

often mistaken for horse radish. This is the most deadly of English' plants. Colour, purple; three feel

Deadly

Dry bracken makes a comfortable high, dark green leaves. mattress. The one blanket would be

nightshade: stolk,, hulr most useful when wrapped round the green; colour, green shot with red; body, epelosing the feet tightly. In flower, dull purple; berry, size of this way the heat of the body is re- wild cherry, colour, green changing

to polished hello black.

tained.

A bundle of dried grass, tied at the ends with string, makes a com- fortable pillow.

Hemlock, cuckco pint and mursh marigold are all poisonous, and the berries of the yew are fatal to cat. The average box of matches con- Every man should be able to shoot. tains 50 matches, which might It is good for the eye und nerves. provide 50 Bres. Bul a single The modern air-rifle is too powerful

"match" can ̈be-split into two-it-a-to be dismissed as a boy's toy; it can sharp hunting knife is used care- kill moderate alze game at a range fully. Brimstone and wood should of from fifty to seventy yurds, be split from the head down.

Matches must be kept dry. A damp match may sometimes be dried by rubbing through the hair.

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Fire sticks are made by whittling n stick "that' shavings curl on it but do not drop off; four of these sticks, built up pyramid shope, are the foundations of a good fire.

Birch bark

for tinder

HERE are many ways of THERE

making fire by friction of

To bait

a line

PAT

DATIENCE as well as skill is needed to become s successful angler.

Worm ig

universal bait. Practically all ash can be caught on worm. Good spols for roach, dace and trout are generally below overhanging bushes. Much" success may be attained by fishing for reach and dace with a tiny blob of paste (dough) on a small hooks.

hard woods. The simplest consists Many Ash, Including the tasty caught on night

of a wooden block with a groove cut perch,

can bc

into it, along which a stick is rubbed lines, a length of line with balted

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of rubbing is necessary.

spot the of a Tinder (shredded birch bark is an weeds) and left overnight. excellent tinder) must be handy, and dry and inflammable.

Additional floats could be made from crow feathers; one of the rifle Flint and steel is an advance on pellets could be used as a weight, the friction method. The back of and, in an emergency, a liny sharp- the blade of the hunting knife ened bird claw or fish bone could be makes a good steel and will produce used 89 a hook,

sparks if struck sharply against a The four salient laws of the wild flint or hard stone.

are silence, patience, alertness, can- The vital part of the operation is ning.

the the ratching of the spork on

To succeed in woodcraft a man tinder, which, being subjected to must use his eyes, cars and nose. hard blowing, or being whirled round Clothing should be khaki, green or in the hand, will flame up.

Ash and beech are good woods- for slow fires; lime and pine for quick fires.. A cooking fire should small and free from amoke; allowance being made for plenty of air and draught,

be

In camp, cleanliness is essential.

grey,

How to carry a rifle

IN stalking, copy the animal.

Creep with the stealth dr

Rubbish which cannot be burned the cat. Take every possible chance the should be buried.

of cover. Travel always into

Two of the simplest forms of wind, remembering that the wind is bread baked over a camp fire are seldom constant.

"twist" and "damper." For "wist"

If stalking to kill, with loaded.

the dough is wound on a clean rific, keep the trigger, away from warmed stick, warmed to ensure that. Jutting thicket or

twigs. Avold

the bread is baked inside as well as dead leaves and wood, which are out, and balced over a good fire of able to crackle,

embers.

In tracking, memorise the print. a thin flat cake of When the trail is lost, mark the spot

glowper, between two large, and then cast around in a widening

For dough is leaves and Inserted in the embers of circle. a hot fire. When baked the leaves can be peeled off.

variety: ...

The North Pole stat is the star that never moves. To find the, Polo

Great Bear.

*

If

this diminished as we left the falls approaching Swallow Falls. Oradually behind, fading to a faint murmur until we reached Ty Hyll Bridge.

A brief spell of sibilant rushing and splashing, then another diminuendo and a speil of liquid whispers across

the meadows were tho accompaniment to Pont Cyfyng. One more crescendo. and the music subsided into the gentle strains that were to be our lullaby. Moel. Siabod's, conical crest made a brave show in the moonlight, but from the height on which the Guest House stands there

Was D yet grander prospect. The peaks of Snowdon atood out sharp and bold in the clear night air. Crib Goch, Carnedd Ugnin, Y Wyddfn and diwedd were all in view and calling for conquest,

For a brief moment we played with the notion of a moonlight round of that "Horseshoe" of peaks. It was a -tempting thought, but after a belated supper we feit in a less romantic mood and

bed seemed on

attractive prospect.

Next me

morning the hills we had seen in the moonlight had lost nothing of their glory, and Bnewden was in full view to its topmost peak, and all day long the run played on the hills and shadowed every hollow and dimple.

A farmer we niet informed us the Welsh had a name for such weather

"It was no good getting

angry with my customers

MOLIM NOT AT ALL -SATISFIED TO-DAY PHYLUS. ESHALL ASK FOR ANOTHER ASSISTART NEXT TIME— YOU HAVEN'T TAKEN

AND I

EVEN WAKE

UP TIRED

ANY TROUBLE!

REJUV

I SEE ITS A CASE OF NIGHT-STARVATION PROBABLY YOU DON'T THAT YOU USE

REALLY EVEN WHILE 2THER IT TAKES

UP

YOU

2000

MUSCULAR

EFFORTS JUST TO BREATHE IF THIS ENERGY IS HOT REPLACED OF COUREN YOU WAKE FEELING YOU TO YIRED. HOW I WANT.

SHE HASN'T GIVEN)

SAE PROPER

ATTENTION

IM EXTREMELY SORRY, LADY CRAYLE.

WONT HAPPZA

AGAM

THAT EVENING

15 FOULIN

ORLICK

HOW BR

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VED UP WITH GE

DO YOU MIHO WAITING WHILI 1 POR I HERE 7+ MUST GET SOME HORLICKS, DOKOR SAVE I'M TO TAKE IT EVERY NIGHT FROM

Do YOU find your job a strain

on your patience?

The menu could afford great siar one looks for the Plough or If you find your job a strain on your nerves -- this probably Meat and Game: Rabbit, wood- The lowest two stars in the means you are suffering from "Night-Starvation.”

aro called the pigeon, pheasant, rook and hedge- Great Bear group

Horlick's taken regularly-at bed-time, guards hos.

pointers; a line drawn through Fish: Roach, dace, perch and them points to the Pole star. trout,

the two pointers can be seen one against Night-Starvation" at replaces the Fruit: Blackberries, cranberries, knows which direction is north even burnt-up energy while you sleep. You wake up with wild ramberries and strawberries, If the Pole star is not visible,

Errs: Starling, woodpigeon, moor= If the evening star, Venus, can be hen and plovers

seen it will be in the west. If the Honey! From the wild bees. 20 moon rises full it will be in the cart. Nate: Hazel. (Beech nuts roasted Signs of wet weather: Dish swim and ground between stones make a ring near the surface: trout leap- splendid substitute for coffee,) ping high: a large circle surround- Balads: Common watercress; leaves ing the moon; the moon rising large.

new reserves of vitality and power Horlick's has a most, agreeable flavour, and it is very economical

the milk is in it, you need only add water.

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OLD LADY NE

GET SO THEN

in

The

October. Welsh words I could not transcribe, but wo were told they meant "Little Sum- ther." There was indeed a summer feeling in the air, but one only needed to get in the shadow of the crags to feel the autumn nip in the air.

Tryfaen claimed us that day, and strange to say we had the mountain to ourselves. In, mid-afternoon, satiated with climbing, we ant on the summit by the pillars of Adam and Eve and watched the shadows lengthening be- low us and creeping round the valley. Par below in a lttle patch of green grassland we could see the farm of Owern-y-gof-uchaf and thero wa wero eventually drawn.

In a little parlour with flowery well- paper we were supplied with ter and home-mode scones and confronted with a Victorian picture Elustrating the vile "Doings of Drink.” -

Bunday gave us another equally de- Nghtful day on Idwal slaba and son- Armed us in the decision to return at 'no distant date. To make sure, I havO

left my climbing boolą and rope ak. Capel Curig.

DIE HEAVENS}

ÎN 30 TIRED

WITH

~BRY SHE'LL WANT

A MUO PACK

CHI DIOMYOL AFTER ALL THE WANT TO MUKH Z DONE THIS

MORNING { MUSTNT LOSE

WE NEVER USED TO HAVE

WORK, PHYLUS, BUT YOU ALWAYE SEEM TO BE SO

COMPLAINTS ABOUT YOUR

VILED THESE DAYE, DONT

YOU THINK YOU

· OUGHT TO SEE' A DOCTOR?

SOME MONTHS LATER-

MY PATIENCE.

FOR ILL GET

TICKED OFF

YES, PERHAPS

YO BETTER, MADAM

VÍM AFRAID PHYLUS JENT HERE ANY LONGER, LADY GRAYLI

•SHE WAS PROMOTED TO BE MANAGERLES OF A NEW BRANCH WERE OPENING

HORLICK'S

guards against NIGHT-STARVATION

THIS MEANS YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE

EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY