96 HUNTING TRIPS 



stones and cacti where the beds are to be 

 placed, and the blankets and robes spread. 

 Generally we have no tent, and the wagon- 

 cover is spread over all to keep out rain. 

 Meanwhile some one gathers the wood and 

 starts a fire. The coffee-pot is set among the 

 coals, and the frying-pan with bacon and 

 whatever game has been shot is placed on 

 top. Like Eastern backwoodsmen, all plains- 

 * men fry about every thing they can get hold 

 of to cook ; for my own use I always have a 

 broiler carried along in the wagon. One 

 evening in every three or four is employed 

 in baking bread in the Dutch oven ; if there 

 is no time for this, biscuits are made in the 

 fryingpan. The food carried along is very 

 simple, consisting of bacon, flour, coffee, 

 sugar, baking-powder, and salt; for all else 

 we depend on our guns. On a long trip ev- 

 ery old hand carries a water-proof canvas 

 bag, containing his few spare clothes and 

 necessaries ; on a short trip a little oilskin one, 

 for the tooth-brush, soap, towel, etc., will 

 do. 



