CAMP LIFE. 303 
going are soon acqnired hj practice, and experience will 
suggest many valuable alterations ; but they are all the 
directions necessary to make camp life not merely com- 
fortable, bnt by the aid of a good appetite extremely 
pleasant. Cookery is no mean science, and a knowledge 
of it will prove interesting and advantageons not only 
in the wilderness, but so long as Irish cooks shall rule our 
kitchens and ruin our digestions, in the realms of civil- 
ization. 
To unite economy in space and weight with the utmost 
amount of accommodation, the following sized tents will 
be found to answer for two fisherman and five guides or 
even four fishermen. 
The tent of the gentlemen should be four cloths deep, 
each cloth of twenty-six inches, and cut twenty feet long, 
so that there should be ten feet on each side of the ridge- 
pole ; the wall takes about three feet, at the upper edge 
of which a small piece is tabled in where the bolt-rope 
passes, to shed the rain. There is an extra strip of can- 
vas along the ridge, with two small grummets in each 
end, inside the tent, to receive the poles ; but there is no 
bolt-rope except along the wall, and there must be no 
cross seams, as they are sure to leak. A shoulder is left 
on tha poles, which are thrust into the grummets and a 
spreader is forced up between them and sustained as a 
ridge-pole by a notch cut in each. There are three tent 
ropes on each side, with a stout line and toggle, or but- 
ton where they join the tent, to trice up the walls in 
warm weather ; the doors, which are at both ends, lap 
well over, and are secured by a strong galvanized hook 
and eye, and are closed with strings. Along the bottom 
