26 ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS. 



OUTFIT. 



There is no one rule by which to he governed 

 in this respect. Personal tastes and means con- 

 trol one in this matter. Generally speaking, outfits 

 are too elaborate and cumbersome. Some men go 

 into the woods as if they were to pass the winter 

 within the polar circle, supplied wdth fur caps, 

 half a dozen pair of gloves, heavy overcoat, three 

 or four thick blankets, and any amount of use- 

 less impedimenta. Dry-goods clerks and students 

 seem to affect this style the most. I remember run- 

 ning against a pair of huge alligator-leather boots, 

 leaning against a tree, one day when crossing the 

 " Carry " from Forked Lake around the rapids, 

 and upon examination discovered a young under- 

 graduate of a college not a thousand miles from 

 Boston inside of them. It was about the middle 

 of August, and the thermometer stood at 90° 

 Fahrenheit. Some half a mile farther on we met 

 the guide sweating and swearing under a pack of 

 blankets, rubber suits, and the like, heavy enough 

 to frighten a tramping Jew-pedler ; and he declared 

 that " that confounded Boston fool had brought in 

 a hoat-load of clothes" which we found to be nigh 

 to the truth when we reached the end of the 

 " carry," where the canoe was. Now I wish that 

 every reader Avho may visit the Adirondacks, 

 male or female, would remember that a good- 



