AUGUST, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
347 
During rough spells, lashed with foam 
and spray to the booming of heavy surf 
On quiet days the youngsters venture forth 
and learn to master the craft themselves 
they bring along are compact but com¬ 
plete, for a few trips is enough to teach 
each one just what he needs to make his 
own outing the most enjoyable to him. 
T ENTS of course are the most popular 
form of habitation, though bungalow 
life is indulged in to a certain ex¬ 
tent, especially by those who stay the sea¬ 
son out. Regulation wall tents are the 
most popular, in size 8 by io or g by 12 
feet. Larger tents are seldom used except 
by clubs or groups of campers who live 
on a co-operative basis. Even the tran¬ 
sient canoeist usually has his little canoe 
tent, which he pitches on the sand. A hun¬ 
dred feet or more from the water’s edge 
Real sport for the expe¬ 
rienced canoeist, when 
the wind and waves are 
high—riding breakers 
at high tide is as near as he should get to 
the river.—Unusually high tides have some¬ 
times necessitated several shifts during the 
night, by novice campers who stuck too 
close to the water. 
One precaution that even the experi¬ 
enced camper may note to advantage is to 
provide corner pegs of extra length for 
his tent. They should not be less than 
two-and-a-half feet, as they must be driven 
deep down into the sand to hold the tent 
secure through the heavy blows that some¬ 
times sweep down the river. Even the 
side stakes should be a good two feet long, 
as the soil well back from the beach is 
very sandy and does not offer tent pegs 
a very tenacious grip. 
A fly for the tent is an item for com¬ 
fort that is well worth the trouble of car¬ 
rying along, if the stay is to be for more 
than a da^ or so. At times the heat, in¬ 
tensified by reflection from the river and 
the beach, renders such an accessory a 
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THE EASIEST WAY AROUND THE PORTAGE 
M Y first idea was a box shaped as a cra¬ 
dle and mounted on a pair of baby- 
carriage wheels. On this I could 
rest one end of the canoe and hold 
the other off the ground to wheel it on. 
It did not take me long to condemn this 
because of its bulkiness. 
So I made an improvement on the soap¬ 
box idea by cutting a cradle to fit the canoe 
DIAGRAM OF THE CARRIER 
Fashion a cradle from a two-inch 
spruce plank and mount it on a 
forty cent baby-carriage axle. Then 
you can push-cart your canoe al¬ 
most anywhere you could carry it. 
By CHARLES S. BARNES 
out of a two-inch spruce plank, and mount¬ 
ing a forty-cent baby-carriage axle and 
wheels on the base. I padded the curved 
part with excelsior, covered with canvas 
and tacked on tight. 
A cross-piece in the center of the cradle, 
where the keel rests, will keep the arrange¬ 
ment from turning turtle when the canoe 
is pushed forward. This piece should be 
fastened by a hinge on each side, to serve 
as brackets, one flap fastened to the cross¬ 
piece and the other on the cradle. A slot 
should be cut in the cradle to receive the 
cross-piece, and the hinges used should 
have removable pins to make the arm de- 
Two wheels peep from beneath the duffle 
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tachable. It can be folded by the removal 
of a pin on one side, making the outfit 
more compact and easily stowed. Each end- 
of the cross-arm should be fitted with a 
pad on top and a screw-eye on the under¬ 
side. Through the latter lines may be - 
passed if the road is rough and you want 
to tie the canoe to the saddle. 
The accompanying sketch shows the gen¬ 
eral construction. Enough wood, nails or 
screws, canvas and excelsior or waste, can 
be found around the average canoe club 
to make this contrivance, so the only things 
you will have to buy would be a pair of 
ten-inch baby-carriage wheels with a 
twenty-five-inch axle, and a pair of hinges 
with removable pins. 
Ever since I first made my carrier, no 
matter how far my trips take me or what 
country I traverse, two wheels may always 
be found peeking from beneath the duffle 
in my canoe. And they have proven their 
worth, not only in carrying the canoe itself 
but often, on portages where the trail was 
fairly smooth, it has been possible to carry 
a duffle bag or two in the far end of the 
canoe, directly over the wheels. This 
saves an extra trip, with practically no 
extra exertion. 
How the canoe carrier looks in action 
