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there is none that is so well known and so highly spoken of 

 by sportsmen generally as Osgood's Portable Folding Can- 

 vas Boat ; and it deserves all the praise bestowed upon it. 

 It is as light as a birch-bark canoe, but stronger ; it will 

 live in a sea where an ordinary Avooden skiff would be 

 swamped. It has been in use for many years, and has with- 

 stood the severest tests ; many improvem.ents have been 

 added since it was first introduced. Mr. Osgood says : 



"As now made, it is as near perfect as it is possible to manu- 

 facture it. The canvas is drawn smooth, and all the fittings 

 work easily. It has a perfectly modeled flat bottom, which 

 makes it very steady and staunch, and entirely free from the roll 

 of other boats of the same size. No . danger of its tipping over. 

 Any lady can row it, for it does not require one-half the strength 

 to handle that a wooden boat does. It can be made ready for 

 the water in five minutes, and no tools or ingenuity are required 

 to set it u])." 



The above is a view of the boat in its compact or port- 

 able form, showing boat folded, bottom-board, camp-stools, 

 gunwale, stretcher and packing-chest ; oars and paddles are 

 jointed, and pack in chest with boat. 



The materials used in its construction are first class 

 throughout. It is made in several sizes from 8 ft. x 33 



