“You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.”
— Horace Kephart, “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft” (The Outing Publishing Co.) 1908
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I will add a modern amendment to that, of your Auriou carving tools!
Or Auriou anything. I loaned my rasp to a student and it came back without teeth.
So is that Kephart in the photo? I’ve never seen a photo of him as a young man. That picnic table reminds me of all the laborious, over-engineered camp furniture drawings you see in early 20th century camping and woodcraft texts.
Rifle, oar, frying pan, stick of dynamite. Looks like he is out to get his axe back.