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there is none that is so well known and so highly spoken of 

 by sportsmen generally as Osgood's Portable Folding Can- 

 vas Boat ; and it deserves all the praise bestowed upon it. 

 It is as light as a birch-bark canoe, but stronger ; it will 

 live in a sea where an ordinary wooden skiff would be 

 swamped. It has been in use for many years, and has with- 

 stood the severest tests ; many improvements have been 

 added since it was first introduced. Mr. Osgood says : 



"As now made, it is as near perfect as it is possible to manu- 

 facture it. The canvas is drawn smooth, and all the fittings 

 work easily. It has a perfectly modeled flat bottom, which 

 makes it very steady and staunch, and entirely free from the roll 

 of other boats of the same size. No danger of its tipping over. 

 Any lady can row it, for it does not require one-half the strength 

 to handle that a wooden boat does. It can be made ready for 

 the water in five minutes, and no tools or ingenuity are required 

 to set it up." 



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The above is a view of the boat in its compact or port- 

 able form, showing boat folded, bottom-board, camp-stools, 

 gunwale, stretcher ancl packing-chest ; oars and paddles are 

 jointed, and pack in chest with boat. 



The materials used in its construction are first class 

 throughout. It is made in several sizes from 8 ft. x 33 



