House and Garden 
Peeping out from the trees and shrubs that 
make the island almost a little forest, are the 
other houses and the tents. A charming 
little shingled cottage, built mainly by the 
men of the family, stands perhaps forty 
yards away from the big bouse, with its tiny 
porch, and outside hangs a cowbell by which 
visitors may signal their coming. It is a 
single bright room with a bay window, 
looking out on a narrow railed porch. A 
tent close at hand is approached by way of 
the porch. Concealed behind birches and 
maples is the guide’s little house with a tiny 
carpenter shop attached, and in the rear of 
the main house is the ice house. Two other 
tents stand close to the edge of the lake and 
perhaps fifty yards from the group of log 
buildings, and at the extremity of the island 
is the beautiful little boat house with a seduc¬ 
tive path and flight of steps leading upward 
to the heights, on which is the tennis ground. 
Nothing can exceed the comfort and sim¬ 
plicity of the tents. Each stands on a 
double-floored platform, and is stretched 
over a stout frame and buttoned down all 
round. An ample fly much longer than the 
tent extends over all and forms the roof of 
a fascinating little veranda railed with cedar 
in the round and still retaining its bark. 
From either veranda you may almost leap 
into the lake, and as one sits at work or at 
play in front of the tent the ear hardly for a 
moment loses consciousness of the delicious 
cool lapping of the water upon the stones and 
pebbles that edge the shore. Within the 
tent is roomy and airy. Low bedsteads 
occupy the most of the space from a point 
five or six feet beyond the front entrance, and 
in the rear of one bed is a tiny dressing-room 
with washstand, bowl and pitcher, in the 
rear of the other a curtained closet which 
serves as clothes-press. Near the front en¬ 
trance is a little wood-burning stove, which in 
the coldest weather of the camping season 
will heat the tent in fifteen minutes after the 
fire is started. 
THE LIVING-ROOM 
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