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and slanting roof, with ridge-pole six or seven feet from 

 the ground. Should be made so that it can be tightly 

 closed at times. Fifteen dollars for a tent, and thirty 

 dollars for passage down, amount to forty-five dollars 

 already expended. Can we provision and provide for 

 the welfare of the party with the remainder ? Let 

 us see. 



After the tent-poles are cut, at the place of camping, 

 which should be upon fresh ground, in a rather airy 

 situation and tolerably near wood and water, the tent is 

 pitched, and we have a habitation. If a party of four 

 start together something is saved to each individual, as 

 the labor and expense of freight, etc., is much less, borne 

 individually. While one is driving tent-pins, and 

 another cutting wood for fire, another can be preparing 

 the food for cooking, while the fourth is hunting for the 

 long Spanish moss (Tillandsia), for bedding. Provis 

 ions demand the first attention, and, in this matter 

 alone, much will depend upon the tastes of the camper- 

 out. Having but fifty odd dollars, and having many 

 wants to supply, some very close skirmishing must ensue 

 between actual and imaginary wants. It will be 

 admitted that we must have pork. Without that the 

 camper-out could hardly exist. It fries his potatoes 

 (provided there be a fire), cooks his flapjacks (if he has 

 any), and spatters and sizzles over a &quot; light-wood &quot; fire 

 in a w;iy that, in itself, is refreshing to a hungry hunter. 

 Pork, then, must be taken, say fifty pounds ; this may 

 be enough and it may not ; there may be an abundance 

 of venison, when the pork will, of course, be consigned 

 temporarily to solitary confinement ; but the chances 

 are, that pork will appear upon the table, or palmetto 

 leaf, three times and more, a day. Pork $5 ; dry salted 



