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Ghthing, &c. — One requires strong warm clothing on the 

 river ; he should not be without a good jacket to come to the 

 hips, two pairs of heavy woollen pantaloons, two warm flannel 

 shirts, two or three pairs of stout yarn socks (" Shaker" socks 

 are best), a change of such underclothes as he wears in this 

 climate in winter, and two pairs of good lace-boots ; one pair 

 of the latter should be sparsely studded with wrought-iron 

 hob-nails, in case he may wish to wade at times. He should 

 avoid glaring colors in his dress ; light-gray is the most 

 suitable. 



His wallet should include thread and needles, awl, waxed- 

 ends, shoemakers' wax, a few hob-nails, coarse and fine twine, 

 a pair of small pliers, a file, a spring-balance to weigh his 

 fish, court-plaster, a box of Seidlitz powders, shellac varnish, 

 prepared glue, and boiled linseed-oil; the last three in 

 yials as large as the end of one's thumb. 



Cooking Utensils. — The cooking utensils and table furniture 

 are an iron pot and kettle, a coffee-pot, a folding wire fish-broiler, 

 three or four tin plates and as many tin cups to fit into each 

 other ; pewter spoons, pepper-boxes, knives and forks, &c. 



If the angler has in view easy transportation and snug 

 stowage, and would diminish the hard work to which his 

 canoe-men are subjected in poling against a strong current, 

 and in making difficult portages, he will not take barrels or 

 cumbersome trunks into a birch canoe, but pack his provi- 

 sions, as many of them as he can, in bags, his clothes in 

 carpet or India-rubber wallets, and his camp equipage in 

 bundles. 



Stores. — Camping out, to be enjoyed with zest, should 



be attended with as few home luxuries as a person can 



well do with ; still, some of those that pertain to his table, 



* add greatly to the edibility of the food he gets by rod or 



gun, when continual feeding on it begins to cloy the appe- 



