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Boy Scouts make a fire with rubbing-sticks in from five to ten minutes. Pass leather thong taut around drill; put lower point of the drill in pit at top of notch in fire-board and hold socket with left hand. Fire-board notch should rest on a chip or thin wooden tray (9). Hold bow by handle end in right hand, steady board under left foot and left arm against left knee. Draw bow back and forward, full length, with steady, even strokes. Ground-up wood will run out of side of notch, falling on tray. At first it is brown, in two or three