Is not an Italian, but is a long name for a short implement. The speygelia is a forked stick or a notched stick ([Figs. 71], [72], and [73]), which is either propped up on a forked stick ([Fig. 71]) and the lower end held down by a stone in such a manner that the fork at the upper end offers a place to hang things over, or in front of the fire, sometimes a notched stick is used in the same manner as [Fig. 73]. Where the ground is soft to permit it, the stick is driven diagonally into the earth, which may hold it in place without other support. The speygelia is much used by cow-punchers and other people in places where wood is scarce.
The Saster
The saster is a long pole used in the same manner as the speygelia. Meat is suspended from it in front of the fire to roast ([Figs. 74½] and [75]), or kettles are suspended from it over the fire to boil water ([Fig. 74]).
Telegraph Wire Cooking Implements
Many campers are fond of making for themselves cooking utensils improvised from ordinary telegraph wire. In the old time open fire-places of our grandsires' kitchen there were trammels consisting of chains hanging down the chimney on which things were hooked by short pot-hooks to hang over the fire; there were also rakens made of bands of iron with holes punched in them for the attachment of short iron pot-hooks ([Fig. 76]). With these ancient implements in their minds, some ingenious campers manufacture themselves rakens and short pot-hooks from telegraph wire ([Fig. 77]). By twisting the wire in a series of short loops, each loop can be made to serve as a place for attaching the pot-hooks as did the holes in the old-fashioned rakens. The advantages they claim for the telegraph wire raken are lightness and its possibility of being readily packed.
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On one of these rakens one may hook the pail as high or as low as one chooses ([Fig. 78]); not only that but one may ([Fig. 79]) put a small pail inside the larger one, where later it is full of water, for the purpose of cooking cereal without danger of scorching it.