Campcrcraft or the Summer Camp 269 



BEDS 



Of all things, the camper's bed is the thing most often 

 made wrong, and most easily made right, when one knows 

 how; and of all things comfort at night is most essential. 



Every dealer in camp outfits can produce an array of 

 different camp beds, cots, and sleeping bags, that shows 

 how important it is to be dry and warm when you sleep. 



The simplest plan is the oldest one — two pair of blankets 

 and waterproof undersheet on a neatly laid bed of evergreen 

 boughs, dry leaves, or dry grass. The ideal way of laying 

 the boughs is shown in the figure below. 



When I can't get grub of the Broadway sort, 



I'll fatten on camper's fare, 

 I'll tramp all day and at night resort 



To a bed boughed down with care. 



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But there are few places now 

 in eastern America where you 

 are allowed to cut boughs freely. 

 In any case you cannot take the 

 bough bed with you when you 

 move, and it takes too much 

 time to make at each camp. 



Sleeping bags I gave up long 

 ago. They are too difficult to 

 air, or to adjust to different 

 temperatures. 



Rubber beds are luxurious, 

 but heavy for a pack outfit, and 

 in cold weather they need thick 

 blankets over them, otherwise 

 they are too cool. 



So the one ideal bed for the 



