A Green Mountain Camp 
THE PORCH DINING-ROOM 
chairs made by the campers of 
birch saplings, a large old-fash¬ 
ioned drop-leaf table, two 
cots used as couches 
and well supplied with 
pillows, and a piano. 
There are also two 
or three small tables 
built at the camp, 
which are used as 
card or refreshment 
tables. The sleeping 
quarters are practically 
out-of-doors. The two bed 
rooms, separated only by a partition, 
are ventilated not only by means of 
windows but through an opening in 
the roof. The main roof timbers 
below the junction of the porch roof 
with the main roof are left unsheathed, 
leaving a six foot space between the 
top of the wall studding and the porch 
roof, so that the bedrooms are almost 
as much exposed to the outer air as is 
the porch. The walls of the bed¬ 
rooms are covered with tea-matting 
from tea-boxes, a papering which 
cost nothing except a little work on 
the part of the campers. The furni¬ 
ture is simple and there is not much of 
it. Sleeping places for the men of 
the party are provided in the living- 
room and the bedrooms are reserved 
for the women. 
The campers have added greatly 
to their comfort and to the woodland 
appearance of the camp by putting 
UP IN THE HILLS 
together themselves whatever they need 
in the way of furniture or small build¬ 
ings, regarding their work in the light 
of an amusement. One of their products 
is the little bridge that crosses a gully on 
the way to the spring. It is made of birch 
saplings, bent, for the sake of the strength 
involved in this form of construction, into 
curves such as are seen in Japanese 
bridges. Boards are nailed across two 
bent saplings to form the floor of the 
bridge. The hand rails are of saplings 
following the same curve and are sup¬ 
ported by hemlock posts, the whole 
thing being a clever bit of design. The 
spring is two or three rods from the camp. 
An excavation was made around it and 
lined with stones. A hut about seven 
feet high, with a gable roof and door but 
no window, covers the excavation. A shelf 
extends around the sides of the hut 
and the provisions are kept there. 
The ice-cold water of the 
spring keeps the place 
at a low temperature. 
The chairs made by 
the amateur crafts¬ 
men, while they are 
of primitive con¬ 
struction, are planned 
with a view to com¬ 
fort. The seats are put 
in with a b a ckwa rd 
slant, and are covered with 
small, pad - like cushions. A 
tenon and dowel construction is used, 
THE CAMP SITTING-ROOM 
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