Whiffenpoof
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title:
Whiffenpoof
text:
A whiffenpoof was a tool for training Boy Scouts in tracking skills. The whiffenpoof itself was a small log, about the size of a stick of firewood, with nails driven into it on all sides, so that it bristled with nails. This was dragged through the forest on a short leash, by the older Scouts who were training the younger. It might thus create a track that the tenderfoot must learn to trace out. Or it might, alternately, be dragged across a trail in order to confuse the trackers. The fewer nails
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiffenpoof
date created:
2004-07-20T19:19:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T17:18:12Z
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