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FURNITURE FOR FIXED CAMPS 551 Package A. R. C. Small i Paper Safety Pins.Dressings (3) 6 Wooden Tongue De-2 A. R. C. First Aid Out- pressors.fits. I Medicine Dropper.6 Assorted Bandages. i Package Paper Cups.I i-yard package Picric i Tourniquet.Acid Gauze. i Clinical Thermometer.I Spool Adhesive Plaster. i 2-oz. Package Absorb-X Pair Scissors. ent Cotton.Brief directions telling how to use these are pastedInside the lid, but one should order at the same timea copy of the excellent little American Red CrossAbridged Text-book on First Aid (General Edition)by Major Charles Lynch, Medical Corps, U. S. A.For prices see the Red Cross catalogue, which Is sentfree on application to the address given above.Tools.— An axe and a hatchet are Indispensable(see Chapters VII and X). If much wood Is to becut, and there are poor axemen In the party, a crosscutsaw is the tool for them. The long pattern fortwo men Is much the easiest to cut with, but meanto transport; a one-man cross-cut with 3-ft. bladeand auxiliary handle for the left hand will do verywell.A hand saw Is necessary if you are to make a diningtable, tent floor, and so on. Make the cookswear on his cook-book that he will not use that sawon meat bones (provide him with a cheap kitchensaw).A spade or miner's shovel will be needed fortrenching, and for excavating the refuse pit, latrine,and perhaps a cold-storage hole and a camp oven.For small tools, see Chapter VII.Take an assortment of nails and tacks, a spool ofand a bundleannealed wire, a ball of strong twine,of braided cotton sash cord (for clothes line, emergencyguys to tent, etc.).If you have a dog, string some heavy wire betweentwo trees as a " trolley," and chain him to it atnight, so he can move back and forth.Here is a good wrinkle that I found in a sports-