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for inserting poles. A log at each end a foot in diameter 

 served to fasten the poles to, thus fogning a canvas bed 6^ 

 feet long, 3 feet wide, and a foot above the carpet or ground 

 of the tent. If preferred, the foot-log need not be so large as 

 the head one ; only have regard to stretching your bed high 

 enough to admit the circulation of air under it. The follow- 

 ing sketch may help illustrate. 



CAMP BED. 



The guides had also cut the poles and inserted them In the 

 hems of the canvas, which I bought and brought with me 

 from Quebec, and with stretchers across the ends of the can- 

 vas, they had fastened my bed to the head and foot logs, 

 made my bed, and had built a. smudge fire in front of my 

 tent. Oh, how refreshing the aroma of a tent carpeted with 

 fir-boughs ! no one, without experience, can properly appre- 

 ciate the luxury. 



After a social supper, we convened in a circle around the 

 smudge fire before my tent to discuss the mighty salmon, 

 and to inform the ladies of the changes in the fashions up to 

 the day we left, being a week after their departure. Of 

 course the changes had been considerable, and the gentle- 

 men's forty-eight hours' advance in studying the peculiarities 

 of the salmon there had entitled them to the honors of Men- 

 torship. So, after summing up and being summed up, and 

 the tent smoked out with a smudge fire on a piece of birch 

 bark, I laid my rubber blanket on the bed, and was soon 

 dreaming that I had captured the beautiful salmon that I 

 had played so long, and was being serenaded by all the oth- 

 er milt salmon for ridding them of the dandy of the river. 

 Being vociferously called on for a speech, it so shocked my 

 nerves that I awoke, and the light peering in through the in- 

 terstices of my tent, I forthwith arose for the morninor. 



