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...Help! No One Left Me a Big Crate of Supplies Without matches, a flag almost the size of Texas, tarpaulin, twine and a knife, what does one do for shelter and fire in the Australian bush? In Queensland, where the nights are reasonably warm, Lilley says Aboriginal people traditionally used a low, semi-circular windbreak of shrubs or tree boughs "with an open fire and your dog or dogs if it was cool or cold at night. A three-dog night is really cold." One piece of advice the Kuchas haven't heeded: Don't construct your shelter under eucalyptus...
Freshman forward Tyler Kolarik, who is always dangerous with the puck, followed up with two more excellent scoring opportunities but couldn't find the twine...
...weren't careful you might fall into the small, empty cracked-concrete swimming pool. A path led down to Charles Creek, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. There was a ramshackle dock with many planks missing, and a skiff, from which we caught crabs by trailing knotted twine behind us in the weedy, brackish-green water. We were impressed by the stupidity of the crabs, which clung stubbornly to the twine as we hauled them up to die in the skiff...
Then, 10 minutes later, junior midfielder Roger Buttles gave the Crimson the lead by tickling twine with a blistering shot past Dartmouth goalie Patrick McClammer to make...
...just hope that this time around, the frustrating reverberation of the puck striking the crossbar, is replaced by the sweet, soft sound of twine...