A REPRESHING Luxury. 299 
for inserting poles. A log at each end a foot in diameter 
served to fasten the poles to, thus forming a canvas bed 64 
feet long, 3 feet wide, and a foot above the carpet or ground 
of the tent. Ifpreferred, the foot-log need not be so large as 
the head one; only have regard to stretching your bed high 
enough to admit the circulation of air under it. The follow- 
ing sketch may help illustrate. 
SSS 
Caup Brp. 
The guides had also cut the poles and inserted them in the 
hems of the canvas, which I bought and brought with me 
from Quebee, and with stretchers across the ends of the can- 
vas, they had fastened my bed to the head and foot logs, 
made my bed, and had built a smudge fire in front of my 
tent. Oh, how refreshing the aroma of a tent carpeted with 
fir-boughs! no one, without expericnce, can properly appre- 
ciate the luxury. 
After a social supper, we convened in a circle around the 
smudge fire before my tent to discuss the mighty salmon, 
and to inform the ladies of the changes in the fashions up to 
the day we left, being a week after their departure. Of 
course the changes had been considerable, and the gentle- 
mews forty-eight hours’ advance in studying the peculiarities 
of the salmon there had entitled them to the honors of Men- 
torship. So, after stunming up and being summed up, and 
the tent smoked out with a smudge fire on a piece of birch 
bark, I laid my rubber blanket on the bed, and was soon 
dreaming that I had captured the beautiful salmon that I 
had played so long, and was being serenaded by all the oth- 
er milt salmon for ridding them of the dandy of the river. 
Being vociferously called on for a speech, it so shocked my 
nerves that I awoke, and the ight peering in through the in- 
terstices of my tent, I forthwith arose for the morning. 
