peared, but at some time between twelve and two they 

 invariably reappeared, and another grand smudge be- 

 came a necessity. If we wished to stay in our blankets- 

 till five or six o'clock, a third smokeout had to be ap- 

 plied at dawn; for the little pests, although active 

 through the whole of a warm night, are most vicious 

 and numerous at dawn of day and during the hours 

 of early evening. 



"Where a good cabin is not obtainable, the camper 

 needs a tent, which, like a good cabin, must be rain- 

 proof, and it is most important that it be mosquito 

 proof. 



Through the whole central lake and river country 

 of the United States and Canada it is impossible to en- 

 joy camping without protection from mosquitoes at 

 night, from about the first of May to the middle of 

 September. 



In all my camping experience, extending over fifteen 

 years, there was only one season, the exceptionally dry 

 summer of 1910, when there were practically no mos- 

 quitoes in the North woods. Several times I sat nearly 

 all day reading on the mossy knoll of a cedar swamp 

 without being visited by more than one or two mos- 

 quitoes. One night, however, when I had made my bed 

 among the ferns in front of my tent, enough mosqui- 

 toes were attracted to cause me to move inside. This 

 was in the driest season I have ever known, and my 

 tent was pitched on high ground, under a grove of jack 

 pines. 



A camper's tent must have a sod cloth; if it hasn't, 

 it's not worth taking into the lake country during sum- 



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