LIGHT TENTS MAKE SMALL BAGGAGE. 



By Kepler. 



for I had been told that this party was and complete rest to every muscle, 



the last of the Indians in the South. If your bed is made on the ground 



For weeks I lay awake at night pic- put a log at the head and a smaller one 



turing to myself the camps of the little at the foot and cover the intervening 



band in rain and storm, in forest and space with a thick layer of flat spruce, 



plain, and I felt a personal loss that boughs neatly laid, with all the unne- 



must have meant great sorrow to me cessary sticks thrown out, chop down 



for, of all my childhood's recollections, some young balsams and strip them of 



this incident is the strongest. all their twigs, collect a great stack of 



In after years when I again saw the these twigs in front of your shack and, 



Indians and camped in their country I selecting all those of about twelve 



tried to learn something of the Indian inches in length, begin at the foot of 



band, without success. They had been 

 swallowed up and classed with the rest 

 of the Nation's wards in the general 

 orders of the Interior Department. 



the bed and work up, sticking the butt 

 ends of the balsam twigs into the 

 spruce boughs. Place them as close to- 

 gether as possible with their tops slight- 



But Indian camps of the last genera- ly inclining to the foot of the couch. 



tion have little to do with the pleasures 

 of camp life to-day. I am afraid the 

 digression took me away from the 

 point I desired to make, when I spoke 

 of sleeping in a teepee. Then I slept 



After all the balsam is planted scatter 

 the fine tips of some hemlock boughs 

 over the balsam and spread your blank- 

 et over all. Any bag or pillow case filled 

 with hemlock and balsam tips make 



on skins, but the modern camper de- good sweet-scented pillows, 



pends upon other bedding. When it comes to tents the variety 



The pneumatic mattress, to me, is one is so great and each particular style 



of the most luxurious of all the modern has so many advantages of its own that 



inventions. Nothing can compare with the selection must be determined more 



the exquisite comfort which accom- by the amount of dunnage you can 



panies the entire relaxation of the body carry than by the form and size of the 



on one of these "blow-beds" after a tent itself. Anything from a circus tent 



hard day's work through the woods or to the tent fly spoken of by Mr. Brown, 



mountains. The mattress fits into every in his account of the "Journey After 



tired curve of the body giving full Black Sheep" in this issue, will do, 



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