323 COOKERY FOE SPOKTSMEK. 



can be erected in so short a time that the trouble of 

 moTing house will not be serious. Having selected 

 the flat stones, lay them up in the shape of a horse- 

 shoe, the sides being about three feet long, and 

 about nine inches apart inside, that is, the fire place 

 will be nine inches wide, or more if desirable. At 

 the further end, the bend of the horse-shoe, the 

 pipe is inserted, it can be held in place by wires to 

 neighboring trees, and a stone placed on top will 

 serve as a damper. All chinks between the stones 

 have to be well filled with clay or mud, or earth 

 banked up against the outside, or what is better yet, 

 the entire affair can be lowered by having a place 

 dug for it. Large flat stones must then be laid 

 over the top and the work is done. One trial will 

 make any person an adept in building it, and it will 

 be found a luxury that to appreciate needs only to 

 be tried. This stove can be erected within the tent, 

 if the trench is dug to the outside and covered with 

 boards, and if there is a hole in the top for the 

 escape of smoke ; and instead of stones sheet-iron 

 may be used for the stove cover. 



The angler will often on his lucky days take 

 more fish than he can turn to account, but which 

 he will probably find use for before his trip is over. 

 These can be salted, and of a morning nothing is 

 better than a salted lake trout or blue-fish. Those 

 who have only eaten cod and mackerel do not know 

 what a salt fish is. Split them, and cut ofi the 

 head and tail and take out the back bones, bones 

 do no especial harm, and are excellent things to buy 



