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well fed with good dry wood, roast you out of a tent twenty 

 feet in diameter when the mercury stands forty degrees below 

 zero. 



Camp cooking-stoves are made either solid or to fold 

 up, but the former pattern is on the whole most desirable. 

 The size of this would also be regulated by the number of 

 hungry men to be fed from it; but by economical use a stove 

 twelve inches high, sixteen inches wide and twenty-six inches 

 long, with four holes and an oven, will furnish cooking 

 capacity for six men. Little space need be occupied by the 

 stove, for in packing for transit you can fill both the oven 

 and fire-box with tin-ware and cooking utensils. The stove 

 should be packed in a strong box or trunk, made for the pur- 

 pose, with metal corner-pieces, handles and lock. It can 

 then be checked on railroad trains as other baggage, and may 

 be placed on a pack-animal or hauled in a wagon over any 

 kind of road without injury 



Another important item in almost any camp outfit is a 

 boat. If the chief object of the expedition be fishing or 

 duck-shooting, or if for any reason a large portion of the out- 

 ing is to be on water, where boats are not kept for rent, then 

 this item will be one of the first to be considered, and sub- 

 stantial lap-streak or other wooden boats would be provided. 

 But if the trip is in search of large game there is scarcely 

 any section of the country likely to be visited in which a boat 

 of this character could be carried conveniently, and yet a boat 

 is sure to be frequently needed. Lakes or streams are likely 

 to be encountered where some kind of a craft would be a 

 welcome accessory for fishing, exploring or for reaching 

 desirable hunting grounds, that would otherwise be inacces- 

 sible. Canvas folding boats are now made that are so serv- 

 iceable and seaworthy that I should never start on a hunting 

 trip, in any country where I expected to find much water, 

 without one in my outfit. One of the best of these, so far 

 as I know, is made by N. A. Osgood, of Battle Creek, Mich. 



