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wears off, and he learns to feel at home in the woods, and 

 becomes as jolly as his comrades. 



An A tent without a stove is large enough for four 

 men, and can be used until snow flies. If a camp-stove 

 is used, it will occupy one side of the tent, and then 

 there will only be room for two to sleep comfortably. In 

 winter, a tent should be staked down firmly to the ground 

 under the south side of a hill, but not so tightly that the 

 first rainy night the canvas will contract and draw the 

 pins. When this occurs, the tent falls, the stove is over- 

 turned, knocking down guns and making general disor- 



A CAMP SCENE Itf FLORIDA. 



der. A knoll in a tamarack swamp makes a good warm 

 site for a camp, as it is well protected on every side. 



The iron pins from the upright poles should go through 

 the ridge-pole and canvas about two inches, and guy 

 ropes be fastened with a clove or double hitch at both 

 ends. When tent-poles are stiffened in this manner, guns 

 can be slung from the top of the tent, and pins put in 

 the standard poles, on which clothing can be hung. 



The stove should be set up on clay, or earth and stones, 

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