Boy's Book of Camping and Wood Crafts by Bernard S. Mason

Author:Bernard S. Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Derrydale Press
Published: 2001-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

FIRE-CRAFT

THE SLOW SMOKE rises, and in it are hidden mysterious pictures that none but the children of the woods can see. . . .

Food, warmth, protection—life itself—depend on precious fire. Cold, dismal, wet, the gloomy woods in one brief moment turn to coziness. Enough to hail a priceless gift, but more than creature comforts—mere animal needs—is found in this flickering magic! There is spirit power:

Within the circle of its light, camaraderie melts to friendship—close, sincere, fraught with deeper meaning than elsewhere in all the world. There is truth in the friendship symbol.

In its dancing flame, its glowing and fading embers, there are pictures—the food of imagination, the wine of creativity. Tonic for artist, poet, composer, inventor—for you and me—it is the charm of fertile fancy.

Alone beside the sacred fire, then it is that we hear the Voices, and the secret message of the Great One comes to us. So it was with the vigil Indian in yesteryears, so with the most practical in an external world today. In potent symbol fire transcends the mundane world.

So we court fire—for body, for spirit.

The Slow Smoke rises. . . .

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