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refreshing — which is more than can be said for 

 many beds of civilisation. 



Hunger is a good sauce. A man coming in 

 tired and hungry will find more enjoyment in a 

 piece of moose meat and a cup of tea than in the 

 most luxurious of banquets. Moreover it must 

 be remembered that some of the wild meats of 

 North America cannot be excelled in flavour and 

 delicacy ; nothing, for instance, can be better 

 than moose or caribou, mountain sheep or ante- 

 lope. The " moufle," or nose of the moose, and 

 his marrow bones, are dainties which would be 

 highly appreciated by the most accomplished 

 epicures. The meat is good, and no better 

 method of cooking it has yet been discovered than 

 the simple one of roasting it before a wood fire 

 on a pointed stick. Simplicity is a great source of 

 comfort, and makes up for many luxuries ; and 

 nothing can be more simple, and at the same 

 time more comfortable, than life in such a birch- 

 bark camp as I have attempted to describe. In 

 summer time and in the fall, until the weather 

 begins to get a little cold, a tent affords all the 

 shelter that the sportsman or the tourist can 

 require. But when the leaves are all fallen, when 

 the lakes begin to freeze up, and snow covers the 



