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If you have weak eyes take along a pair of colored 

 glasses in your coat pocket. The large lenses of 

 amber glass are best. In another pocket you can 

 carry a little tube of mosquito dope if you think you 

 need it. A paste made of castor oil and oil of 

 lavender, done up in a squeeze-tube, is about as 

 good as any contrivance, especially for a woman. 

 Ammonia or borolyptol will take out the sting, but 

 liquids are awkward to carry along in glass. 



Cutlery? Your own hunting-knife, of course, 

 and let us hope the blade is short. Let the knife 

 scabbard hang loose on your belt, especially if you 

 ride. Have on your saddle or your belt, if you go 

 alone into the woods, a hand ax of real steel with 

 a real handle. You may need it. 



Camp furniture? The question is one of trans- 

 portation. If you are long in camp and have your 

 family with you, it is nice to have a regular table 

 fashioned on the spot'. There are usually stumps or 

 logs or boxes which will do for seats. If you have 

 one of the five-gallon oil cases in camp, a square 

 tin, you can do almost anything with it or make 

 almost anything out of it, from a wash-tub or a 

 stove to a store-house. A water pail you can buy 

 made of canvas or rubber, folded. The Indians 

 make one out of the stomach of a deer. 



When you come to pack your camp belongings, do 

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