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slippers are another great comfort; so is a sleeping- 

 hood at times. Another pointer on the theme of 

 keeping warm in extra chilly weather: The time 

 that most you will feel the cold is about three A. M., 

 and the place will be your back, between waist and 

 shoulders. A sheepskin vest may be bought for 

 four or five dollars and is a good investment 

 either way you look at it; and it 's nice for automo- 

 biling in Winter, especially for the doctor when he 

 gets up out of a warm bed in the early hours to face 

 the chill blast. If, in addition to the observance of 

 these suggestions, you carry to bed with you the hot- 

 water bottle mentioned in the previous chapter, and 

 should you chance to have along a down quilt to curl 

 up in inside your blanket well, you may realize 

 that you can be comfortable even in a tent, in the 

 woods, and in the rain. Of course it requires fore- 

 thought and the application of brains and ingenuity; 

 and while the latter may be some other fellow's or 

 a composite of some other outdoorsmen's, the fore- 

 thought must be yours. Down quilts, though un- 

 deniably bulky, are extremely light; and you can 

 economize both in bulk and cost by dividing one full- 

 sized quilt into three parts, each of which will afford 

 good back protection for one sleeper; or a feather 

 pillow will serve as the makings of such a pad. For 

 very severe weather, though, there is nothing in the 

 tent line equal to one in the baker style, left open in 

 front, and whose slanting back-wall reflects down on 



