THE JOY OF OUTDOOR LIFE 



TENTS AND MOSQUITOES 



By A. Woods Tramp 



IN order to get the most out of a camping trip, one 

 should be provided with all things that really add 

 to one's comfort and pleasure, and reject everything 

 which would not more than compensate in comfort for 

 the trouble of taking it. 



There are two kinds of camping trips. If provisions 

 and equipment can be taken to the selected spot or close 

 to it, by wagon, launch or canoe, one is not strictly 

 limited as to the weight or bulk of his equipment. If 

 on the other hand everything has to be carried on the 

 <-a m per 's back for a considerable distance and any 

 distance over a mile is considerable for the novice and 

 for a man not somewhat hardened to physical exercise 

 then both the weight and bulk of the equipment must 

 be reduced to a minimum. 



All camp necessaries and luxuries there should be 

 some luxuries in every camp may be considered un- 

 der four heads : shelter, food, clothing and sundries. 



A cabin is best for shelter. It is drier and generally 

 more roomy than a tent. If it is provided with a small 

 stove and a table, it makes a very cozy camp on rainy 

 days, and the stove may simplify the problem of cook- 

 in jr. The cabin must, of course, be rainproof and mos- 

 quito proof or it is a great deal worse than a good tent. 



In a bad mosquito season I once spent a very hard 

 week in a cabin that could not be made mosquito proof. 

 About ten o'clock, when we retired, we filled the place 

 with so dense a smoke that our tormentors disap- 



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