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NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [12:5— April, 1916 



No recreation is quite as delectable as a tramp with a good 

 companion, when you are entirely severed from the need of contact 

 with civilization. To shoulder your pack in the morning, tramp 

 as far as and in whatever direction fancy dictates, pitch your camp 

 at night where you please, go on the next day, or stay if you wish — 

 this is the acme of solid enjoyment. But it is such only when your 

 load is easily endurable. The following suggestions are made as 



Fig. i. Diagram of Tent 



the result of many, many miles of just such tramping. They are 

 given in the hope that some of the readers of the Review, or the 

 boys and girls who are their friends, may profit by them. 



You will need a tent. Do not let this convey to your mind a 

 canvas affair, with wooden poles and stakes, all of which must be 

 carried, because that means an unbearable burden. Buy three 

 yards of 3-yard wide extra heavy cotton sheeting. Bind it all the 

 way round with inch tape, and sew a length of the tape down the 

 middle of the sheeting. This tape is to be sewed flat onto the 

 sheeting, both edges being sewed. At intervals of half a yard, sew 



