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will relish. Pepper and salt are added at 
the last moment. 
Beans can be cooked in the ordinary 
camp kettle, though never as well as in the 
bake oven. 
Potatoes.—Persons who are in the habit 
of camping near civilization are generally 
great on potatoes. The woodsman looks 
upon them with suspicion. They are too 
heavy for easy transportation and _ their 
nutritive value is too small to make them 
an ideal food for the man who would carry 
his outfit far afield. However, if the trip 
is not likely to be too strenuous you may 
take potatoes, with the certainty that they 
will add to the attractions of the mess. 
I think they are best cooked in their jackets. 
If you throw them into the hot ashes they 
will cook to perfection. 
Evaporated Fruit.—Evaporated apples 
or apricots should always be taken, as they 
are antiscorbutics. Soak the fruit for an 
hour or two in cold water, then boil until 
they are thoroughly soft. They will need a 
considerable amount of sugar. 
Eggs.—lt is but rarely that one can have 
fresh eggs in camp, but when it is possible 
they should add very largely to pleasures 
of the table. The best lunch a man can 
take for a day’s shooting is one composed 
of sea biscuits and hard-boiled eggs in 
their shells. This lunch does not get 
‘““mussy.”’ 
Flapjacks.—Self-respecting people in the 
settlements call these things pancakes, 
but the woodsman always speaks of them 
as flapjacks. Many men have lived on 
them for years at a stretch, thereby ruining 
their digestions, spoiling their tempers, 
and becoming profane to a most deplorable 
degree. The flapjack is of simple con- 
struction. Add a teaspoonful of baking 
powder to a large pannikin of flour, put 
in a pinch of salt, and thin with water or 
milk; see that your frying-pan is well 
greased and very hot, and pour sufficient 
batter upon it to make a good big flapjack 
—only amateurs and women make small 
ones. Practice tossing them up and catch- 
ing them, because you will always be con- 
sidered a tenderfoot by the men until you 
can so turn them. 
Erbswurst.—This is a scientifically pre- 
pared food that we owe to the German 
RECREATION 
Army. It contains all that’s necessary ex- 
cepting water, and if you place one-third 
of a package of erbswurst in two quarts 
of boiling water, and boil for ten or fifteen 
minutes, you will have something that will 
_keep the machine going for several hours. 
To Waterproof a Tent.—This is hardly 
cooking, but take one-half pound of sugar 
of lead and mix well in a large bucketful 
of soft water. Soak the tent in this for 
twelve hours and then hang it out to dry 
in the sun but do not wring. 
VII.—ArmMs AND AMMUNITION 
It is most strange but true that the 
veriest tyro feels that he, at least, knows 
just what he should have in the way of 
weapons. He may be densely ignorant 
of the life of the woods and plains, may 
never have seen an animal larger or more 
fierce than a rabbit at liberty, and yet 
he will scorn advice when it comes -to 
buying rifle, gun or pistol. But it is very 
certain that there exists an enormous dif- 
ference in rifles as well as in the other 
weapons mentioned; and these differences 
were deliberately produced by the makers, 
because they knew that the same arms 
would not do equally well for grizzlies or 
snipe; that certain qualities could be 
obtained if others were not demanded— 
in other words, that the all-round weapon 
does not exist. 
Yet it is this elusive arm that the tender- 
foot seeks, and at some period of his exis- 
tence is pretty sure to have persuaded 
himself that he owns. 
The nearest approach to a universally 
useful weapon is, undoubtedly, a 12-bore 
cylinder shotgun, with 30-inch barrels, 
and weighing -about 74 to 8 pounds— 
but even this reliable companion is very, 
very far short of being a perfect weapon for 
all kinds of game. Yet it will do wonders, 
and may serve the needs of an explorer 
well. 
English hunters of big game are fond 
of extolling the virtues of the Paradox, 
which is a weapon smooth bored except 
at the choke, which is rifled. It is made in 
10, 12, 16 and 20-bores. Few American 
hunters care for this style of gun, and the 
writer after having tried more than one 
Paradox would not recommend it for 

