NATURE versus MEDICINE 



and begun to build a little log cabin in which 

 to spend the winter. 



While in the tent I experienced zero 

 weather, and it may be of interest to know 

 how I managed to keep warm. I had picked 

 up two discarded milk-cans, and these I filled 

 with hard wood coals from a fire which I 

 maintained near the tent. By closing the 

 flaps of the tent the heat from the cans would 

 keep up an even temperature through the 

 night. If it happened to get cold toward 

 morning I would burn a newspaper now and 

 then, which would warm the tent until light 

 enough to start an outdoor fire. I baked 

 beans in a hole in the ground, in true Maine 

 camp style. There would be coals enough 

 under the bean-pot, in the morning, to cook 

 coffee, and hot coffee and baked beans seemed 

 to go to the right spot when the thermometer 

 was hanging around zero, and one was living 

 in a cotton tent. 



I did my cooking on a bed of red hot coals, 

 thus avoiding smoked food and the loss of 

 coffee-pot handle or spout. Hemlock bark 



