296 CAMP LIFE. 
yontli lias not been so entirely devoted to dress as to pre- 
vent her knowing sometliing of lier household duties, and 
will cany with you a few simple recipes, you will not 
regret it. 
As no one can be certain of perfect health or freedom 
from accident, it is well to be provided with plenty of 
sticking and court plaster, cholera medicine and Rochelle 
salts ; but generally the fine exercise and open air are a 
brave preventive against sickness. Do not forget brown 
soap to wash the dishes, candles for light in the evening, 
and cream of tartar and soda to make the flour rise. 
The most necessary tools are an axe, a hatchet, one of 
Aiken's patent diminutive awl tool-chests, with which to 
mend broken rods, needles and thread to mend torn 
clothes, some rosin to mend the canoes, and a suj^ply of 
various sizes of nails for numerous purposes, while a flle 
and sharpening stone will be found useful additions. An 
india-rubber water-proof bag is admirable as a receptacle 
for clothes or blankets, which should be heavy, and a 
tin wash-basin and an air-pillow will be great additional 
comforts. Fresh eggs may be conveniently stowed in 
the barrels of coarse salt used for curing fish. 
Of the foregoing there are none you can comfortably 
omit, and besides them there are plenty you would do 
well to have ; but the judgment and taste of each indi- 
vidual Vv411 suggest the additions. 
As one of the first objects will be to preserve the fish 
you catch, a preparation of eight ounces of sugar, two 
ounces of salt, half an ounce of brown pepper, well 
rubbed into fish from which the back bone has been re- 
moved, and w^hich are allowed to dry in the sun, will 
