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length of the tent perhaps a foot, to gain more stor- 

 age-room at this convenient spot. 



One may stand at full height well within the door 

 of this canvas woods-dwelling, for changing clothes, 

 etc., and he has headroom to sit up in his bed; yet 

 the walls are so steep that a good quality of un- 

 bleached muslin, treated as stated, proved effectively 

 waterproof, even if the material was rubbed against 

 on the inside. And our house is well ventilated, 

 both because of the windows and as the alum and 

 lead process does not seal the pores of the cloth 

 while conferring protection from the wet. The 

 writer and his tent-mate " Denny " and may every 

 camper have his equal for wearing qualities 

 weathered on this trip a continuous thirty-six-hour 

 downpour which raised the river twenty-two inches, 

 higher than it reached in early Spring. 



But not yet have we exhausted the catalog of the 

 virtues of this little tent. On the inside of its rear 

 wall are four pockets, and there are two more on 

 either side-wall, alongside the heads of the beds, for 

 miscellaneous articles of clothing, etc. The curious 

 " swellings " of the accompanying illustrations show 

 that they were appreciatively utilized. 



Across the top edge of the rear wall and from 

 thence extending from the rear corners to the peak 

 is a continuous piece of braided cotton-rope, with 

 small galvanized thimbles at these corners. This 

 rope-triangle bears all the chief strain of the ropes 



