Fig. 19.—Details of saw-buck supports.

Although many summers have rolled around since the author first made his advent on this beautiful earth, he still feels the call of the bathing pool, the charm of the spring-board, almost as keenly as he did when he was wont to swim in Blue Hole at Yellow Springs, Ohio, or dive from the log rafts into the Ohio River, or slide down the "slippery" made in the steep muddy banks of the Licking River, Kentucky.

Fig. 18.—Another way to rig a chump.


CHAPTER III
A RAFT THAT WILL SAIL