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Never Doubt Your Compass

I have used a variety of compasses from time to time, but it was not until spring of 1960 that I used a compass every day as part of my job – that job being a compass man establishing boundaries in the forests of northern British Columbia. With a small, hand held compass, I had to be very accurate, starting out at one corner, traveling the perimeter of a square and arriving back at the same spot.

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