FOOTNOTES:
[1] Chapter VIII. of this book tells how to build an underground club-house.
[2] Since the above was written the writer visited the place, found the woods gone and trolley cars running by the old camp.
[3] G. O. Shields, President of the League of American Sportsmen, editor of Recreation.
Ernest Seton-Thompson, naturalist to the Government of Manitoba, author of “Wild Animals I Have Known.”
Capt. Luther S. Kelly, veteran of the War of ’61 and Spanish War, Indian fighter, one of General Custer’s scouts and hunters.
William Harvey Brown, African traveller, hunter and collector for the United States Museum, author of “On the South African Frontier.”
A. J. Stone, field naturalist, arctic explorer, hero of a 3,000-mile sledge journey, discoverer of several American mammals new to science.
[4] Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, and his brother, Langdon Gibson, naturalist and traveller.
[5] An account of this frog is in “The American Boy’s Handy Book.”
[6] The South has also the venomous water-moccasin or cotton-mouth, and the poisonous but timid coral and harlequin-snakes.
[7] Snakes in neighborhood of New York: Dangerous—Banded rattlesnake, copperhead. Harmless, can be domesticated—Black-snake, worm-snake, ringnecked-snake, black pilot-snake, green-snake, water-snake, brown-snake, hognosed-snake (adder), milk-snake, garter-snake, ribbon-snake.
[8] For description and diagrams see “The Outdoor Handy Book.”
[9] “The American Boy’s Handy Book.”
[10] Toe-nailing, or foot-nailing, consists in driving the nails diagonally or slantingly down through the ends of the beams to the sill, in place of nailing through from the top down to the sill.
[11] See p. 100, “The American Boy’s Handy Book.”
[12] Another plan is described in Chapter XXIV.