PRACTICAL POINTS OX CAMPING OUT. 5/1 



on your own back, you will find that you can get along with 

 a limited supply of bedding, extra clothing, and cooking 

 utensils; and for such work it is almost impossible to give ab- 

 solute instructions. Each man must act in a measure on his 

 own judgment, his own taste, and his own willingness to 

 carry a big load or to live like an Indian. One cannot be 

 too careful in sifting out all unnecessary articles, in a case of 

 this kind. It is possible for a man to go into the woods and 

 live in comparative comfort for a month with no other outfit 

 than a gun, a supply of ammunition, a pair of blankets, a 

 few fish-hooks, a line, a bag of hard-tack and two pounds of 

 salt. 



In nearly every company of three or more men will be 

 found one who, if not a professional mechanic or artisan, is at 

 least handy in the use of tools. When possible, such an one 

 should carry with him a kit of tools and materials, such as 

 are most likely to be needed for repairing possible injuries or 

 breakdowns that may occur to guns, fishing tackle, boat, 

 harness, wagon, cooking utensils, or other portions of the 

 camp-outfit. This kit need not be complete, however, nor 

 expensive, for under compulsion an ingenious mechanic may 

 make one tool answer several purposes. He may draw on 

 nature for many implements and materials needed, if he have 

 not brought them with him. The kit should include one of 

 the latest and largest tool-holders, which has a thumb vise at- 

 tached, and contains brad-awls, chisels, screw-driver, file, and 

 several other tools in the handle. The list should also include 

 a pair of strong pliers, a hammer, small hand-saw, two or 

 three shoemaker's awls, a harness-needle, and a sail-needle. 

 Among materials to be carried should be a strip of thong- 

 leather, a piece of strap spring-steel, and half a pound each of 

 Nos. 1 8 and 24 copper wire; a few wire nails, and brads 

 — assorted sizes, a few horseshoes — assorted sizes, a few 

 horseshoe nails, a few screws, and a supply of the com- 

 ponent parts of each rifle and gun carried by members of the 



