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and other bric-a-brac without danger of injury. If on a 

 special hunting trip, take as little other fishing tackle as 

 possible. What you do carry should be in a wooden box. 

 Your tin tackle-box is no good for the wild and woolly 

 country. 



PROVISIONS. 



The question as to what kinds and what quantity of food 

 to carry on a camping trip is perhaps more difficult to settle 

 satisfactorily than any other that besets the sportsman when 

 preparing for an outing. In making up his commissariat he 

 must of course be governed by the number of men that are to 

 make up the party, the length of time the trip is to occupy, 

 what is to be its means of transportation, and how much of 

 that is to be provided; where the party is to go; whether the 

 trip is to be in quest of fish or game or both. If you are to 

 travel by team, over good roads, you may of course carry a 

 much more elaborate bill of fare than if by pack-train, by 

 canoe or on foot. As a rule, however, only plain substantial 

 food should be taken into camp. This is the kind you will 

 crave, the kind you will need, and delicacies should be left at 

 home. As a rustler once expressed it, "Pie and cake are good 

 enough at home, but they don't climb the hills worth a d n." 



Cancel all the knickknacks on your list at the start, and 

 give your stomach a rest during your outing. You doubtless 

 need a chance to recover from the ill effects of the rich food 

 you have been living on for years past. Bread, meat, vege- 

 tables and fruits are the staples that you will require when 

 you come to climb the hills, tramp over the prairies, wander 

 in the dense woods, or pull on the paddles. How to make 

 up a list of edibles suitable as to quantity, quality and vari- 

 ety for a given number of days in the woods is therefore a 

 serious question, to those who only go into the woods occa- 

 sionally. To the old-timer it is the work of but a few min- 



