TAKE A SEAT

If you ever find yourself in the unfortunate predicament of the Irishman who was "hanging between nothing and space" with only a rope to hold on to, you should be able to form quite a comfortable little seat if you hold the rope as depicted in this sketch.

All you have to do is to hang on for a moment or two with your left hand, catch the end of the rope with the right, and bring it up under you in the form of a loop. Then grip both the end and the rope itself together, and you will find yourself sitting in the loop, and easily able to support your own weight.

HANDY TWEEZERS

Tweezers are a thing one rarely sees about, and they are always not in evidence when required; that is, when one is unfortunate enough to run a splinter into one's hand.

When scouting, one is always liable to get thorns and splinters into the flesh, and if one carries a pen-nib on one's person it will be found the best of tweezers. In the illustration, a hand in which a splinter has entered is shown, and this is the method by which it is ejected.