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Two such trestles can be made to support a few split saplings, or a
number of stout straight rods, which can then be nailed, spiked, or
lashed down with cross-battens to form a table; and more such trestles
can form the seats.
On the right of the sketch you see three forked uprights. These formed
our rack for holding fishing-rods and landing-nets.
The little tufts hanging on this rack are bunches of heather.
Did you ever hear the yarn of the Boy Scout who, at his school
examination in natural history, was asked, "What is heather?" He
replied, "Well, sir, it is what we clean the cooking-pots with in
camp."
He was quite right, though perhaps the examiner did not think so.
A few bunches of heather are most useful as dishcloths for cleaning
dishes and pots. The reason why they are hanging on the rod rack is
that they are handy for use in the scullery, which is that part of the
river close by the rack.
In using a river you always have certain spots told off to the
different uses. First and highest up-stream you get your drinking
water.
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