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and willingly. Domineering and ordering about will be 

 found a very poor lubricant for the camp machinery. Just 

 remember the story of the lark and the farmer. The best 

 way when you want anything done is to do it yourself. 

 Camping parties while en route should go into camp for the 

 night quite early, then everything can be prepared and 

 made snug by daylight. Select camping ground with refer- 

 ence to wood and water; have both plenty and convenient. 

 When the camp is just for the night the best place for the 

 fire is against the windward side of a large green tree. The 

 heat will cause a draft up the tree, which will carry away 

 the smoke almost equal to a chimney. If the tree is not 

 hollow there will be no danger of burning it down in one 

 night, or even three or four. In selecting a camp-site for a 

 camp of several days, or weeks, more care should be taken ; 

 when possible, select a place sheltered from wind and 

 storms by hills or heavy growth of timber on the side of the 

 prevailing storms, at the same time out of danger from fall- 

 ing trees or limbs; look well to the wood supply; don't for- 

 get to ha\e an ax in kit; and for water, select a running 

 stream, lake, or spring. Too much care cannot be taken as 

 to cleanliness about the camp grounds; have a certain place 

 for offal and garbage, and then see that it is all deposited 

 there. The offal of fish, game, etc., if promiscuously scat- 

 tered about, will soon make the grounds filthy and unwhole- 

 some; this matter cannot be too carefully looked after. If 

 camping on a running stream, in the stream will be a good 

 place to deposit the refuse of camp, if the current is 

 sufficiently swift to carry it off. The following will be about 

 the equipage necessary for a party of four: One wall tent, 

 10 by 12 feet square, wall two or three feet high, made of 

 8-ounce duck. -The government wall tent is a good one, 

 and will answer the purpose quite well, but one of the 

 following description is very much better. A tent about 



