INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



outfit the open camp-fire, such a picturesque 

 feature in an illustration, has been supplanted 

 by a plain sheet-iron stove which is placed in 

 the tent, with a few feet of pipe attached to 

 carry off the smoke. If one wants the open 

 fire it of course can be easily supplied, and 

 at first a good many sportsmen desire it on 

 account of the romance and novelty of the 

 experience, but the same pampered tastes, 

 which have forced man from a savage life 

 to adopt the comforts which civilization 

 supplies, will invariably lead to the open 

 camp-fire being abandoned for the common- 

 place sheet-iron stove very unromantic but 

 thoroughly practical and useful. The open 

 camp-fire, with the smoke blowing in your 

 eyes from every direction, which gives the 

 sensation of being scorched on one side and 

 frozen on the other, does not appeal to the 

 modern sportsman who disassociates sport 

 from martyrdom. 



Folding tables and chairs can be "packed" 

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