Memories of Moose-Shooting 



sight of the camp and within an easy rifle-shot. One 

 of my friends actually succeeded in getting a snapshot 

 of a bull, a cow, and a calf standing in the water at the 

 edge of the bog not over a hundred yards from the door 

 of the boat-house. 



Chapter 7. — Description. 



Just a word here about " my hut in the woods." I 

 suppose every sportsman hopes some day to have a camp 

 somewhere in the wilderness, built out of logs, with big 

 stone fireplace and all in accordance with his dreams. 

 It took the writer ten years to find the location, which 

 of course must be in the heart of a fine hunting and 

 fishing district, and to build such a cabin. Strange as 

 it may seem, both camp and location have been more 

 satisfactory in realization than in anticipation. 



The construction of this log cabin will be of interest 

 to sportsmen who have had the usual difficulty of keeping 

 the calking between the logs of a cabin from drying up 

 and falling out. This building is calked with Portland 

 cement, which was put in about ten years ago, and is 

 perfectly good and tight at this date (191 8). The 

 interesting point regarding this method of calking which 

 has worked out so successfully is the fact that the cement 

 is reinforced. After the logs were laid up and the 

 building roofed, I drove shingle nails three inches apart 

 in the upper and lower log of each seam, and left them 

 sticking out about three-quarters of an inch where the 

 space permitted. Then I strung fine picture wire be- 

 tween the heads of the nails, with one turn around each 

 nail. Mortar was made of Portland cement and sand, 

 mixed five to one, and of the same consistency as lime 

 mortar. I applied this calking inside and out with a 

 mason's trowel. The nails and wire held the cement 



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