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sailing fly may be arrested by its roof, one wall-tent rises near the 

 shelter of the shrubs, and another opposite, if the party consists of 

 two or more persons. Between them are planted the table and chairs, 

 which were sketched out rather than finished by rough carpentry of 

 adze and auger many summers ago and have wintered often in these 

 thickets. Farther back, at the edge of the trees, stands an A tent 

 for the men, and another to cover the provisions, with a space for 

 the camp-fire between. Such a canvas house, with its outside fly 

 stretched over, gives perfect shelter from heavy rains, and has 

 nothing to fear except from sudden gusts that may rip out the tent- 

 pins. Its inside furnishing is simple but complete. First, the bedstead 

 demands the attention due to arrangements for inviting tired nature's 

 sweet restorer during nine good hours out of the twenty-four. Four 

 stout crotches, kept apart by cross-pieces, and sunk deep in the 

 ground, lift, at a height of two feet above it, two poles run through 

 the broad hems of a canvas sacking, which may be double and 

 stuffed with hemlock twigs. They give a springy support to buf- 

 falo robes and blankets. The upper one of these is to be doubled 

 down its length, and a wide sheet, folded in the same way, laid 

 between. An air-pillow and pillow-case complete a bed as trim 

 as any ever spread by a neat-handed Hibernian Phillis. On the 

 other side of the tent a neat wardrobe, with ample ventilation, is 

 built up with similar rods on taller crotches. The dress needed is of 

 thick woolen throughout, though at some noon hours in the brief 

 intense summer of that region light clothes are comfortable. A few 

 nights of last season were too hot for sleep — a rare experience. 

 The mercury ranges usually between 40 and 74°, but toward the 

 end of August, and especially while aboard ship, the air is constantly 

 chilly. Next, a sideboard rises against the rear tent-pole, piled up 

 of empty boxes, the upper one of which holds the library, — pegs 

 being set in the pole for thermometer, spring-balance, and looking- 

 glass, if you will. The wine-cellar and spirit-vault are established 

 outside the tent, under the fly. Add a block candlestick, strew the 

 ground thickly with sapin covered by an India-rubber cloth for 

 carpet, and one is better lodged than many a tenant of a log-cabin. 

 Next day after arriving, the guides go down again with all the 

 canoes to bring a fortnight's stores from the chaloupe. This burden 

 loads their light craft so deep that care and skill are needed to twist 



