Boy Scouts can do almost anything now, since they're learning how to help themselves.

There isn't a boy in the room who can't build a fire with sticks and cook a good meal on it.

Also, we'll show, directly, that we can build a houseboat on the Rio Grande." "If we are as slow at building the boat as we are in getting this story out of you, we won't get started toward the Gulf of Mexico until cold weather next fall." "We bought two pine planks sixteen feet long," Fremont went on, with a smile at the impatience of the boys, "a foot wide, and two inches thick.

We sloped the end so the boat would be scow-shaped, and bought matched flooring for the bottom.

We put tar into all the seams, joints and grooves to keep the water out.