YOUR SUMMER ENCAMPMENT 



general, then, plan to make your own house, your 

 own camp. You can be entirely comfortable, you 

 and all the family, in that way. Indeed, that is the 

 only real way to go on a wilderness vacation ; have 

 it for your own and on your own. 



The tent, as used for a family encampment, may 

 very well be large and commodious. You can buy 

 tents into which you can put floors and side walls 

 and screen doors, if you like tents so large that you 

 can rig up a gasoline stove inside and cook all sorts 

 of things in defiance of all sorts of weather. In 

 tents such as these you can have real cots or even 

 real beds. 



For a long and permanent encampment it is well 

 enough to have a good bedtick filled with something 

 soft anything soft which the country affords. 

 Some persons like to sleep on a cot, although I never 

 saw one which really was comfortable. If a cot is 

 feasible at all, it is in the summertime. The real 

 camp bed is something you can roll up in a bundle 

 and tie with a rope. 



The air mattress is a good summer bed if you 

 like air mattresses. Some do not fancy them at 

 any season, but others insist that they solve the 

 whole bed problem. The air bed is good in summer, 

 if ever. I have seen a boy make a very good bed 

 mattress out of two or three canoe cushions of the 



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