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fold in it when packing, and to keep it from being crushed 



in the pack. 



If traveling with teams and without a stove, a "Dutch oven" 

 will be found useful for baking bread, meats and vegetables. 

 But if you travel with pack animals, canoes or mackinaws, 

 it will be found cumbersome ; and in all such cases it is better 

 to depend entirely upon the frying pan for baking, and on 

 this, the camp-kettle and broiler for cooking meats and veg- 

 etables. 



The coffee-pot and tea-pot should be made of heavy block- 

 tin, with pressed lid. The handle should be riveted on and 

 the bail attached by heavy malleable iron ears. 



Plates and cups should also be of block-tin; the latter 

 should be pressed, should have the handles wired on at the 

 top and loose at the bottom, so that any number of them will 

 nest. Knives and forks should be of steel not cast iron, and 

 the former should be kept sharp enough to cut meat without 

 generating profanity. 



The ax should be a full-sized one weighing about three 

 pounds; should have a full-length handle; and should be 

 carefully muzzled so that it will not cut up any other articles 

 in the pack or in the wagon. A good muzzle is made of sole- 

 leather, fastened with copper rivets, and should have straps 

 to pass around the pole and over the handle and then buckle. 

 I never could see the value that many hunters attach to a 

 hatchet. A large hunting knife will do almost any work that 

 a hatchet will do, and much in the way of cutting up game, 

 etc. , that it will not do. When there is a log to chop off or 

 a tree of considerable size to cut down, I want a full-grown 

 ax. Even when canoeing or tramping in the woods I carry 



an adult ax. 



It is possible to dispense with a number of the articles 

 enumerated in the foregoing pages, when it is desirable, from 

 any cause, to travel very lightly. For instance, when trav- 

 eling on foot, in a big woods, and carrying the entire outfit 



