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be stowed away in the odd corners of your luggage. You 

 may also carry more clothing and more provisions, such as 

 potatoes, and ought certainly to take along at least one hun- 

 dred and fifty traps of different sizes, and a good set of board- 

 stretchers for curing skins. 



TENT. 



In the place of the light half-tent recommended for a cam- 

 paign on foot, you should take a regular A tent of eight or 

 nine pounds' weight, house-shaped, and buttoning up in front. 

 This should be dipped two or three times in a solution pre- 

 pared by mixing equal parts of sugar of lead and alum in a 

 pailful of milk-warm water. This treatment will render the 

 tent almost impervious to rain, and will protect it from the 

 pparks of fire that will occasionally be blown upon it. Instead 

 of a ridge-pole and two forked stakes for supporting it, all you 

 need is a cord thirty or forty feet long, to be drawn through 

 the ridge of the tent, fastened to it about midway, and tied 

 at the ends to two trees at the proper height. The sides 

 should be drawn down tight and fastened by hooks driven 

 into the ground. 



STOVE AND FURNITURE. 



A much needed convenience for life in the woods is a stove 

 with its furniture, that shall on the one hand afford all neces- 

 sary facilities for cooking and warming, and on the other shall 

 take up the least possible room in packing. Having devoted 

 considerable study to this matter, I flatter myself that I can 

 put the ingenious trapper in a way to make or procure the 

 exact article that he wants. Your stove should be made of 

 sheet-iron, and should be twenty-seven inches long, ten inches 

 wide, and eight inches deep, having on the top two eight-inch 

 holes for boilers and one four-inch hole for the smoke-pipe. 

 Ten feet of pipe will be sufficient, and this can be made in 

 five joints of two feet each, tapering in the whole length from 

 four inches in diameter to three, so that the joints will slip 

 into each other and the whole can be packed for transporta- 

 tion inside the stove. For an outlet of the pipe through the 



