YOUR SUMMER ENCAMPMENT 



mother used to keep her milk crocks in the old 

 spring-house on the farm. 



As to medicines, you do not need to be so careful. 

 A box of pills and a box of Sun cholera mixture will 

 about fill that bill. Lime-water and linseed oil will 

 cure sunburn if you are particular. Permanganate 

 of potassium, injected, will cure snake-bite. I never 

 carried a hypodermic in camp in my life and have 

 never known a case of snake-bite, but if you are 

 very nervous carry along the outfit. Your sport- 

 ing goods dealer will supply it. 



The finest thing in all camping-out plans is your 

 own personal possible bag. It is to hold your own 

 toilet articles in one of its pockets. You will want 

 to shave and bathe in camp as regularly as at home. 

 In other pockets of your possible bag there may 

 be a spare fishhook or so, some bachelors' buttons 

 that clamp on, a piece of whetstone, a little rolled-up 

 "housewife" with needles and thread, and a pair of 

 blunt-pointed scissors. 



Every outdoor man has some obsession of his 

 own. My own is that there should always be needles 

 and thread in camp. This dates back to an early 

 experience. Once, when rather young, I was out on 

 a Western ranch, and while using a drawing knife 

 managed to cut open my kneecap clear across and to 

 the bone. There was no doctor anywhere near, so 



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