Just a little story:
When I was just a young one, I was a Cub Scout in my home town of Springfield Michigan. My Cub pack was going to go to the Cub Scout Jamboree being held in Detroit Michigan. We were told that there was going to be contests in cub scout skills, compus reading, knot tying, fire starting etc, etc. The winners of these contests would be be given gold painted rocks which could later be used at an auction for equipment for the pack.
I decided that I was going to win some of these gold rocks. I was good at compus reading and I knew my knots but I was weak on my fire starting. I really pondered over this. I finaly came up with the anawer to my delema. I would cut some kinling, soak some of it in gasoline and some of it in diesel, wrap it up really good so that it wouldn't leak on my cloths and take that with me to the janboree.
At the jamboree, everything went great. I won some gold rocks for compus reading and some for knot tying and now it was time to use my secret weapon to win some more for the fire starting. I pulled my kinling out of my knak sack, stacked it real good and waited till we got the signal to light our fire. We had to get our fire going with using one match only. The signal was given, I struck my match,........... Flames shot over my head, burning sticks went everywhere, the judges tent caught on fire and everyone ran like hell. Needless to say, I did not win that event. My scout master did however tell me that I did uphold the scout motto " A scout will always be prepared"
Jim Bilyeu
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