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This episode is brought to you by Fine Forest Scenery.

Tonight. and forest scenery. Tonight we'll read our second to last selection in our Woodcraft series, published by George

Washington Sears under the pen name Nesmuck.

Sears was a writer and adventurer who penned essays on hunting, fishing, and camping for popular journals and magazines.

This episode will feature the last chapter of the Woodcraft Book.

Next month, for the final episode in the series, we will read selections of the author's poetry, published as Forest Runes.

In this episode, the author discusses his preference for clinker-built canoes over other styles.

A clinker-built, also known as lap strike, is a method of boat building in which the edges of

hull planks overlap each other. Clinker-built ships were a trademark of Northern European navigation

throughout the Middle Ages,

particularly of the long ships of the Viking readers and traders.

Let's get cozy.

close your bed. Now take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 10 Odds and ends.

Where to go for an outing, why a clinker, bows and brows. The oft recurring question as to where to go for the outing can hardly be answered at all satisfactorily.

In a general way, any place may ought to be satisfactory.

Where there are fresh greenwoods, pleasant scenery, and fish and game plenty enough to supply

the camp abundantly with boating facilities and pure water.

It's more in the man than it is in the land.

And there are thousands of such places on the waters, the Delaware, the rivers and lakes of Maine,

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