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Clothing, &c. — One requires strong warm clothing on the 

 river ; he should not be without a good jacket to come to the 

 hips, two pairs of heavy woollen pantaloons, two warm flannel 

 shirts, two or three pairs of stout yarn socks (" Shaker" socks 

 are best), a change of such underclothes as he wears in this 

 climate in winter, and two pairs of good lace-boots ; one pair 

 of the latter should be sparsely studded with wrought-iron 

 hob-nails, in case he may wish to wade at times. He should 

 avoid glaring colors in his dress; light-gray is the most 

 suitable. 



His wallet should include thread and needles, awl, waxed- 

 ends, shoemakers' wax, a few hob-nails, coarse and fine twine, 

 a pair of small pliers, a file, a spring-balance to weigh his 

 fish, court-plaster, a box of Seidlitz powders, shellac varnish, 

 prepared glue, and boiled linseed-oil; the last three in 

 vials as large as the end of one's thumb. 



Cooking Utemils.— The cooking utensils and table furniture 

 are an iron pot and kettle, a coffee-pot, a folding wire fish-broiler, 

 three or four tin plates and as many tin cups to fit into each 

 other ; pewter spoons, pepper-boxes, knives and forks, &c. 



If the angler has in view easy transportation and snug 

 stowage, and would diminish the hard work to which his 

 canoe-men are subjected in poling against a strong current, 

 and in making difficult portages, he will not take barrels oi 

 cumbersome trunks into a birch canoe, but pack his provi- 

 sions, as many of them as he can, in bags, his clothes in 

 carpet -or India-rubber wallets, and his camp equipage in 

 bundles. 



Stores.— Camping out, to be enjoyed with zest, should 

 be atteuded with as few home luxuries as a person can 

 well do with ; still, some of those that pertain to his table, 

 add greatly to the edibility of the food he gets by rod or 

 gun, when continual feeding on it begins to cloy the appe- 



