"I don't believe it leaks enough to hurt." "That's so!" said Bobby.

"We can boil 'em in that." With the ax--in this country men never venture from home without an ax, for in wilderness traveling it is often a life saver--Jimmy split some sticks, and then with his jackknife whittled shavings from the dry heart.

He stopped his knife just short of the end of the stick, until six or eight long, thin shavings were made, then, with a twist of the blade, he broke off the stub with the shavings attached to it.

Thus the shavings were held in a bunch.
Several of these bunches he made, working patiently, for patience and care are as necessary in building a fire as in doing anything else, and Skipper Ed had taught him that whatever he did should be done with all the care possible.

And so in making a fire he gave as much care to the cutting of shavings and placing of sticks as though it had been something of the highest importance, and doing it in this way he seldom failed to light his fire, rain or shine, with a single match.