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going are soon acquired by practice, and experience will 

 suggest many valuable alterations ; but they are all the 

 directions necessary to make camp life not merely com- 

 fortable, but by the aid of a good appetite extremely 

 pleasant. Cookery is no mean science, and a knowledge 

 of it will prove interesting and advantageous not only 

 in the wilderness, but so long as Irish cooks shall rule our 

 kitchens and ruin our digestions, in the realms of civil- 

 ization. 



To unite economy in space and weight with the utmost 

 amount of accommodation, the following sized tents will 

 be found to answer for two fisherman and five guides or 

 even four fishermen. 



The tent of the gentlemen should be four cloths deep, 

 each cloth of twenty-six inches, and cut twenty feet long, 

 so that there should be ten feet on each side of the ridge- 

 pole ; the wall takes about three feet, at the upper edge 

 of which a small piece is tabled in where the bolt-rope 

 passes, to shed the rain. There is an extra strip of can- 

 vas along the ridge, with two small grummets in each 

 end, inside the tent, to receive the poles ; but there is no 

 bolt-rope except along the wall, and there must be no 

 cross seams, as they are sure to leak. A shoulder is left 

 on the poles, which are thrust into the grummets and a 

 spreader is forced up between them and sustained as a 

 ridge-pole by a notch cut in each. There are three tent 

 ropes on each side, with a stout line and toggle, or but- 

 ton where they join the tent, to trice up the walls in 

 warm weather ; the doors, which are at both ends, lap 

 well over, and are secured by a strong galvanized hook 

 and eye, and are closed with strings. Along the bottom 



