House and Garden 
which though roughly executed, is workmanlike. 
In the small tables the same mode of construction is 
used. Birch saplings with the bark left on are used 
for material. There is rural free delivery at this 
mountain camp and the post-box is built of pine 
slabs. Rainy days are spent by the campers at their 
craft of rustic wood-working. 
The camp is deep in the woods, on one of the foot¬ 
hills of the Green Mountains, surrounded by higher 
hills. As one of the campers says, the location is 
wild enough to he interesting and tame enough to be 
comfortable. Close beside the camp is a mountain 
stream, spanned by a bridgeTvhich is an extension 
of the porch and on which the campers sun them¬ 
selves on cold mornings. A hollow worn in the 
rock bed of the stream near the camp, forms a nat¬ 
ural swimming pool about forty feet long, twenty 
feet wide and five or six feet deep. Its marble sides 
are colored a greenish yellow by the stream. 1 he 
water is ice-cold, even in the warmest 
weather. The brook is a trout-stream, 
well stocked with fish. About eight miles 
away from the camp it Hows into a broad 
river, the goal of frequent camp excur¬ 
sions. One of our illustrations shows 
the rapids and a glimpse of mountains 
beyond. Another shows a calmer phase 
of the same stream, with the clear-cut, 
distinctive contour of a Green Moun¬ 
tain range in the middle distance. One 
photograph taken nearer the camp is of 
the meandering course of a road through 
the woods. A short distance away is a 
knoll commanding a mountain view 
that includes not only the Green Moun¬ 
tains but the Adirondacks. On a clear 
day the view extends ninety miles to the 
west and sixty miles to the south and 
shimmering stretches of silver in the 
remote distance are said to be glimpses 
of Lake Champlain. In the vicinity 
of the camp deer are often seen. 
At night small wild animals, probably 
woodchucks and squirrels, are heard 
scampering around the porch and across 
the bridge. A stuffed wild cat adorning 
the camp, the terror of any dog that 
happens in, was shot by one of the camp¬ 
ers, and bears have been shot in the 
neighborhood. At the same time, the 
nearest village is only four miles away, 
down a steep mountain path, and a 
small New England city is only twelve 
miles distant. The camp cooking is 
done by any member of the party who 
feels moved to cook, a system which 
results at times in culinary masterpieces 
and at other times in extremely simple 
fare. A boy brings milk and eggs every day from 
the nearest farm, and chickens and vegetables can 
be procured at the same place. To obtain a big string 
of fish all that is necessary is to get up early and go 
fishing, and fish are one of the chief items on the 
camp bill-ot-fare. Delicious edible puff balls are 
found in the woods, and wild blackberries and rasp¬ 
berries grow for the picking. 
I he dining-room on the porch is a great delight 
to the campers. The table is covered with a white 
enamel cloth, to save work. The campers joyfully 
throw potato skins and corn cobs over their should¬ 
ers into the raging brook, for the same work¬ 
saving reason. The dishes are scrubbed in the 
fine sand close to the brook and left in the sun to 
dry. 
Besides fishing and hunting, for which latter, 
however, the campers are usually too early, there 
are long tramps in the woods with a camera or 
THE ROAD THROUGH THE WOODS 
