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Show TRAIL TALK "RiveJfack" Eating utensils should not prove too much of a problem for the modern outdoorman. A split stick with a wedge at the base of the split will suffice as a fork if the tips are sharpened. A forked stick will also work. A lUtle whittling will produce a spoon from any stick of wood. Shells of mussels, clams, oysters, abalone and other similar shell fish will furnish spoons of a stick is fastened to them. Larger shells of the shell fish will provide pro-vide good dishes and food containers. con-tainers. The Missouri Gourd cut In half, after drying, will provide pro-vide food containers or drinking drink-ing cups. The noggin of the frontiersman was made from a burl taken from a tree. A burl Is formed by an overgrowth of wood over a spot where a branch has been broken off. Cutting off a burl and hollowing it out will give you a drinking cup, as will the tip end of a cow's horn. |