CAMPING OUT 



brood around a stove and light their 

 pipes with matches, and not with coals 

 snatched out of the camp-fire*s edge, or 

 with twigs that burn briefly with baffling 

 flame ? 



But it will not be long before it will be 

 impossible to get a taste of real camping 

 without taking long and expensive jour- 

 neys, for every available rod of lake shore 

 and river bank is being taken up and 

 made populous with so-called camps, and 

 the comfortable freedom and seclusion 

 of a real camp are made impossible 

 there. One desiring that might better 

 pitch his tent in the back woodlot of a 

 farm than in any such popular resort. 

 This misnamed camping out has become 

 a fashion which seems likely to last till 

 the shores are as thronged as the towns, 

 and the woods are spoiled for the real 

 campers, whom it is possible to ima- 

 gine seeking in the summers of the 

 future a seclusion in the cities that the 

 forests and streams no longer can give 

 them. 



Yet, let it be understood that make- 

 believe camping is better than no camp- 

 ing. It cannot but bring people into 



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