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inflatable type. It was a trifle narrow, but the boy 

 himself was narrow. 



Blankets? Yes, and plenty, because even in the 

 summertime it often gets cold in the woods, es- 

 pecially in damp weather. It is pretty hard to get 

 a real man's size camp bed down to less than ten 

 or twelve pounds in weight. You can make a good 

 light bed out of a down quilt or two, faced with a 

 light lamb's-wool blanket, the whole covered with 

 a silkaline waterproof cover, fastened along the 

 edges with snap buttons. You are no good as an 

 outdoor man until you have invented a camp bed all 

 your own. Perhaps you are a sleeping-bag devotee. 

 Ephraim is wedded to his idols, and this deponent is 

 already sufficiently disliked for his detestation of 

 all sleeping-bags. 



But just the other day this deponent made a dis- 

 covery in blankets. It happened in a big paper mill 

 in the pine woods country. The blankets were not 

 made of paper, but of wool, and the very best of 

 wool. In the manufacture of paper, the thin film 

 of pulp is carried up out of the vats on a continuous 

 traveling band, several feet in width and perhaps 

 one or two hundred feet in length. This band is 

 made of wool, all wool, and the very best of wool. 

 If there is a fiber of cotton in it the paper pulp will 

 stick and break the fabric which is in process of 



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