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RECREATION 



to any dealer your money will be re- 

 funded. These cans make excellent re- 

 ceptacles for food and we bought one 

 full of our favorite cookies for between- 

 meal lunches. A frying pan, milk can, 

 plate, cup, knife, fork and spoon, salt, 

 pepper, sugar, coffee and meal for each 

 person completed the outfit. Don't for- 

 get the frying pan, meal and salt, for 

 no fish dinner can equal the one cooked 

 beside the stream from which the trout 

 have just been taken. 



All we carried could be placed com- 

 pactly on the buckboard, and neatly 

 covered with the tent which, in our 



our outfit as we started. For clothes 

 we took only what we wore, with a 

 linen duster and two hats, :a broad 

 brim and a light felt for night wear. 



Be sure to have your wheels well 

 looked after before you start. Three oi 

 ours we had repaired and the fourth 

 we thought was all right. It wasn't. 

 It lasted just eight miles and left us 

 four and one-half miles from the near- 

 est village. We pitched our first camp 

 right there, and after straightening up 

 the wheel, threw it into a nearby 

 swamp to soak till morning. This en- 

 abled us to reach Barre, Mass., where 



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Plenty of grain worked wonders 



case, was simply a 6 feet by 8 feet piece 

 of heavy canvas. 



In most communities you can "find a 

 horse that can be bought for very little 

 money and one that good treatment and 

 careful feeding will improve wonder- 

 fully. As you should plan to sell the 

 horse at the end of the trip the price of 

 the horse can be made to suit the purse 

 of the campers. We paid $io for ours 

 and came near shooting him the next 

 morning and charging it to experience, 

 but a two week's run in a pasture, with- 

 out shoes and with plenty of grain, 

 worked wonders. 



The sketches give you some idea of 



the wheelright "soaked'' us $2.25 foi 

 fixing the wheel. It lasted less than 

 three miles and then fell in of its own 

 weight. We entered Athol, one riding 

 and the other pushing the wheel up 

 straight at each revolution, much to 

 the ever-present small boy's delight. 

 Here it was properly repaired and our 

 troubles with, wheels ended. 



But here we met other troubles and 

 only the fact that we had local friends 

 of good repute saved us from the con- 

 stable or at least bodily injury. We 

 pitched camp for the night near a 

 schoolhouse about two miles north of 

 the city and after supper walked back 



