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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF NESSMUK 
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dozen or more fresh eggs, broken into 
the tin, and they keep and carry well, 
lasting about a week. I use them as a 
base for cornbread and flapjack batters, 
so that seven will last for a week’s camp. 
A still smaller tin serves for butter, and 
these two are enough. Of the little 
muslin bags (the six by three inches is 
about right) I carry five; rice, sugar, 
pancake flour, white flour and cornmeal, 
about % lb. in each. Coffee, baking 
powder and salt go in small 14 lb. tins 
in a lobe of the growler, and the other 
small articles in little bags 2x3 inches, 
sometimes all of them in a larger bag so 
they will not get separated and lost. On 
some trips I take a small bag of one of 
the wheat cereals, a spoonful of which, 
stirred into boiling water, makes a dish. 
The milk problem is easiest solved by a 
small can of evaporated cream, which 
may be used “as is” in coffee and tea, 
or diluted in your cup with water to 
make a milk for pancake batters or 
creamed spuds. 
With these foods, and a reasonable 
knowledge of cooking, I can hit the trail 
for a week or so and live high. A quart 
of potatoes and half a dozen onions are 
all the concessions I will make to heavy, 
bulky stuff ; they usually go here and 
there in odd corners of the pack, and 
form the basis for stews. As a rule the 
pack, made up for a week or ten days’ 
trip, weighs 32 lbs. all told, and, as I 
keep it always ready for service, I get 
many a little outing that would other- 
wise be impQssible. Leaving Friday 
night, you are under canvas that eve- 
ning, have Saturday and Sunday in 
the open, and get home Sunday night 
ready for business Monday morning. 
For the last seven years I have not 
missed at least one camp every month 
in the year, and in some seasons man- 
age to get out every week-end in the 
month. As a means of relaxation from the 
daily grind there is nothing that will so 
quickly put one in a healthy state of 
mind as one of these little camping trips. 
T his is the fruit of all that Ness- 
muk aimed at — to have a light, ade- 
quate outfit which would give one 
the freedom of the forest. The old 
woodsman used to spend his entire sum- 
mers roaming the North Woods. Such 
is denied us by business conditions, but, 
a modern modification of his outfit en- 
ables us to get almost as much outdoors 
— week-end trips for trout, bass, salt 
water fish, quail, rabbits and deer in 
their season, with trapping and nature 
study for winter camps. 
As he said, in our big yearly camps 
we usually get ten cents worth of pleas- 
ure on the dollar’s outlay. At a huge 
cost for railroad fare, truckage and out- 
fit, we arrive somewhere in the sup- 
posed wilderness for a two week’s stay 
— the only two weeks of the year — only 
to find the fish and game not so much 
more abundant than in our home neigh- 
borhood. Is it not too true? 
Why not try the go-light method? 
Study your own state and its fish and 
game possibilities. I’ll warrant you, 
within three dollar’s carfare from your 
own home, you will find plenty good 
enough fishing and shooting to make a 
week-end camp worth while. In my 
own state, (New Jersey) there are thou- 
sands of such places, all within three 
dollars return carfare from my home, 
many of them still nearer. The other 
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