Dr. Wilkins takes a slate and chalk to one week's work at Fort Wilkins. He follows eight bushels of grain and three-quarters of a cord of wood through four stripping runs and a forty-gallon spirit run to about fifteen proof gallons, then sets the price he gets against Mr. Lincoln's $2.00-a-proof-gallon tax to show why a small still-keeper's margin was thin and one bad week could wipe out a season. Retired revenue officer Captain Donald Vance explains how he caught still-keepers with arithmetic, and Wilkins answers Cletus 'Rabbit' Miller of Wilkesboro, NC, about hickory ashes and red oak shavings in the thump keg before striking his anvil to knock down the blue flame myth.

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Dr. G. G. Wilkins recalls the old New England training days: farmers drilling with cornstalks and umbrellas, gingerbread and cider carts, and the rye wagons that followed the drum. He then tells how the call of April 1861 turned the Pittsfield common into a solemn recruiting ground, and how Barnaby the bear wrecked the cannon salute. Master coppersmith Silas 'Hacksaw' McAllister tells new stories about re-bushing the town cannon's touch-hole with copper, a powder flask full of rye at inspection, and a copper drum that came home from the war with a bullet dent. Wilkins also answers Cletus 'Rabbit' Miller of Wilkesboro, NC, on hickory ashes and red oak shavings in the thump keg, and knocks down the blue flame myth.

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Dr. Wilkins remembers 1863, when fear of smallpox from returning soldiers led the Pittsfield selectmen to post guards on the roads and press the town tooth-puller into service as its doctor. He covers vaccination scabs, camphor bags, a pest-house quarantine, a coffin full of jars, and a guard who met Barnaby at the privy, and coppersmith Silas 'Hacksaw' McAllister brings new tales of brimstone-smoked army mail, a deacon who took a vaccine scab for snuff, and a pest-house kettle that got through the Barnstead line. In the mailbag, Wilkins answers Cletus 'Rabbit' Miller of Wilkesboro, NC about red oak shavings and hickory ash in the thump keg, then strikes coins on his anvil while he debunks the old blue-flame test.

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