When the Boy Scout Movement started in America it had the good aggressive American motto, "Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead," which was borrowed from that delightful old buckskin man, Davy Crockett.
A few years later, when the scout idea was taken up in England, the English changed the American motto to "Be Prepared;" because the English Boy Scout promoter was a military man himself and saw the necessity of preparedness by Great Britain, which has since become apparent to us all.
And in order to be prepared to pack a horse, we must first be sure we are right, then "go ahead" and practice packing at home.
One of the most useful things to the outdoor person is a
Pack Horse
All of us do not own a horse, but there is not a reader of this book so poor that he cannot own the horse shown by [Fig. 174].
There are but few people in the United States who cannot honestly come into possession of a barrel with which to build a pack horse or on which to practice throwing the diamond hitch. They can also find, somewhere, some pieces of board with which to make the legs of the horse, its neck and head.