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roof of the tent, there should be a piece of tin, ten inches 

 square, with an oblong hole, to be fastened at the proper 

 place on the roof by means of lappels. The furniture of the 

 stove should be two dripping-pans of Russia iron ; one thir- 

 teen inches long, nine inches wide, and an inch and a quarter 

 deep ; the other enough smaller to pack inside the first ; a 

 kettle, also of Russia iron, nine inches across the top, seven 

 inches and a half deep, and six inches and a half across the 

 bottom ; and two or three tin pails' and several basins, all 

 made in a diminishing series, so that they will slip into each 

 other, and all into the iron kettle. The kettle and pails match 

 the holes in the top of the stove, and when used in cooking 

 tea, coffee, &c., should be covered with tin pressed plates. 

 The whole of this furniture can be packed with the pipe in 

 the stove. For supporting the stove in the tent, prepare four 

 posts eighteen inches long, made of three-eighths inch iron 

 rod, sharpened at one end, flattened at the other and fash- 

 ioned like a small tenon. Two pieces of band-iron should 

 then be made just long enough to reach across the bottom of 

 the stove and receive the tenons of the posts into holes drilled 

 in each end. Then, to set up your stove, drive the posts into 

 the ground, adjust the cross-pieces to their places, and place 

 the stove on the cross-pieces. Small depressions should be 

 filed in the edge of the stove-bottom, to fit the ends of the 

 tenons, above the cross-pieces, so as to prevent the stove from 

 moving from its position. Your tent is large enough to ac- 

 commodate any number of persons from two to six ; and your 

 stove will warm them and do their cooking, with an amount 

 of fuel that will be a mere trifle compared with what is re- 

 quired for an open fire. It has the advantage also of giving 

 a quick heat, and, with a damper, will keep fire all night. 



BED AND BEDDING. 



Good sleeping accommodations can be provided in the fol- 

 lowing manner : Take two pieces of sacking or other coarse 

 cloth, six and a half feet long and two feet and three quarters 

 wide, and sew them firmly together at the sides, making a bag 

 with both ends open. Cut two poles, each seven feet long 



