258 THE IDYL OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO 



trenching-tool is a folding or collapsible shovel. It 

 is a mighty handy instrument about camp so is 

 a small cross-cut saw. 



Plenty of trouble, perhaps you are thinking, for 

 the sake of comfortable sleeping. Well, son, when 

 your uncle is out on a two-weeks' camping trip, if 

 there is one thing that he 's going to do it is to sleep 

 comfortably or he will know the reason why. It 

 is the novice at the game whose specialty is " rough- 

 ing it." Your true woodsman certainly has learned 

 to accommodate his wants to restricted means, but 

 he is the last man to submit himself needlessly to 

 harmful exposure and privation. And say, speak- 

 ing of trouble, did ever you attempt to make one of 

 those all-browse affairs? make it right and keep 

 it so? That is work. And did we sleep comforta- 

 bly in our stretcher-beds ? Did we ? Ask " Denny 

 the Axman," sixty-three years young and good for 

 a twenty-mile hike any day he '11 answer. 



In using this tent for only a night or two, the 

 stretcher-bed feature need not be utilized; the tent 

 being set up with the bottom flat and laid over 

 leaves, browse, or grass. In this way it easily will 

 sleep three adults. Used for two, luxuriating in 

 the stretcher-beds, there is the aisle affording room 

 for a small boy or for storage of considerable duffle, 

 and also a space at the foot of each bed, as the beds 

 are six inches less than the full length of the tent. 

 " Next time " we shall increase this fore-and-aft 



