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You Might Have to Work for Hours to Persuade a Burro to Navigate a Bridge Like This—and Then Fail 
your determination to travel with this 
melancholy beast, use a diamond hitch. It 
will hold the pack firmly to his sides when 
the difficulties of mire, stream and open 
trail present themselves. If he capsizes in 
a stream, the pack can be quickly thrown 
off by loosening a single strand at the 
top. 
If your vacation is limited and you must 
make a quick trip to the Golden Trout coun¬ 
try, you will find that pack boxes have an ad¬ 
vantage over the leather or canvas kiaxes. 
Although slightly heavier, they will keep 
your provisions in better shape and pre¬ 
vent the canned goods from becoming 
jammed and dented. Such dents cause a 
slight explosion and partial loss of the 
contents of the can when you insert the 
can opener. Rice, sugar, beans and other 
leakables should always be packed in can¬ 
vas bags, for metal cans and boxes soon 
lose their shape and fly open. 
But if your outing is to last several 
weeks, and you 
are to be on the 
trail m u c h, use 
leather kiaxes in 
preference to the 
pack boxes. They 
are pliable and will 
therefore contain 
more. There is lit¬ 
tle danger of 
breaking them, for 
they have no cor¬ 
ners to catch on 
protruding rocks 
and trees. 
BOVE all, it 
is a man’s 
character that 
is of the greatest 
importance in the 
woods. And noth¬ 
ing will ruin his 
character more 
quickly than poorly 
prepared meals. 
Nothing will put 
him in high spirits 
quicker than bread, 
brown beans and a 
pot of tea, prepared by one who knows 
the fine art of camp cookery. 
The art is easy to acquire if you go 
about it intelligently. Here are some 
practical suggestions that may help make 
your trip through the Golden Trout coun¬ 
try—or elsewhere—a pleasant and com¬ 
fortable one. 
Hot-bread. 
Flap-jacks are a tedious dish to prepare 
and by the time the last batch is cooked 
the first is stone cold. Give me in their 
place a piping hot pan of hot-bread, and 
let me eat it with thick maple syrup. 
Hot-bread is easily baked in an ordinary 
frying pan. With your hands mix well 
some flour, salt, baking-powder and a 
little lard. Add water, and some canned 
milk if you can spare it from the coffee 
ration. Stir this to a thin biscuit dough 
and pour into a frying pan enough to half 
fill it. Rake a few red coals from your 
fire and place the pan on these. Cover it 
with a kettle cover and place a few coals 
on top. 
Watch closely to prevent its scorching. 
In a few minutes you will have a real 
delicacy. 
Dehydrated Vegetables. 
Fresh vegetables are too heavy to carry 
in quantities, but you will find the de¬ 
hydrated kind a palatable substitute. The 
most satisfactory of these are potatoes, 
corn, cranberries, spinach and cabbage. 
They are light and occupy little space. 
Canned Eggs. 
Dried eggs will add greatly to your 
larder. They come in the form of a yel¬ 
low powder which, when mixed with water 
and canned milk, may be made into a 
luscious omelette or scramble. 
Beans. 
Beans are hard to cook over an open 
fire. If, however, you will build your 
evening camp fire 
over a hole in the 
ground, you may, 
before turning in 
for the night, place 
in the hole your 
Dutch oven, well 
wrapped in a sack 
and containing a 
mess of beans prop¬ 
erly prepared for 
cooking. Cover the 
oven with live coals 
and then a foot of 
loose dirt. In the 
morning you will 
dig them up cooked 
to suit the most 
fastidious. 
Chocolate Pudding. 
Chocolate corn¬ 
starch pudding con¬ 
tains much of the 
food value we de¬ 
rive from fresh po- 
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