
An Effective Dead Fall 
HERE is a dead fall that works very 
well. It must have the usual pen of 
sticks built up around the bait of course. 
The trap sticks and the arrangement 
enables them to sustain a great weight 
and still be thrown with the slightest 
touch. A “Figure Four” with a heavy 
weight is so hard to spring that an 
animal will eat the bait and escape. 
The sticks “a” and “b” driven into the 
ground and notched to hold the bait 
stick can be any distance apart and 
with a heavy weight tongue “c’’ can be 
placed close to stick “a” and the bait 
stick is easily pulled 
out of the notch on stick 
“bh”, Stakes should be 
driven on three sides, 
the only opening to bait 
is over the bottom log. 
Holes can be bored near 
end of top log and pins 
driven in in form of a 
rack and for a large 
animal a heavy rock 
can be added after trap 
is set. 
This trap will kill 
any animal instantly, 
from a bear to a weasel, 
and not injure the pelt. 
The trap and sticks are 
put up with the bark 
on. Entirely of wood 
and can be made in the 
woods with an axe and pocket knife, 
with no expense but the trapper’s time. 
I have used this trap and no other 
but have never known it to be used by 
any one else. A fox will enter it readily 
if baited a time or two, and it is a far 
better and surer bear trap than a steel 
trap. 
EK. A. VICKROY, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Heating the Tent 
HE heating of a tent is not always 
an easy matter, especially if a 
stove is not available. Anything in the 
way of an open fire is out of the ques- 
tion on account of the risk and the 
smoke nuisance. Yet, often enough, in 
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damp weather, the camper-out wishes 
for warmth at night in the tent. Here 
is an excellent plan by means of which 
a tent may be perfectly heated for 
hours without the least danger from 
fire or any smoke nuisance. Get a 
metal bucket and place this in an in- 
verted position on a cleared space in 
the tent. Then, with a stick, mark out 
a circle around it. Slightly within this 
circle dig out a hole, which should be 
about 2 feet deep. When the-hole is 
finished it is filled with glowing pieces 
of hardwood from a fire outside. Then 
put the inverted bucket on the top, press 

it down well, and pile soil just where 
the edges of the pail touch the ground. 
In this way it will be quite smoke-tight. 
In a few moments the bucket will be 
radiating heat, and this it will continue 
to do for hours, so that the inside of the 
tent is perfectly warmed. 
Shelter for the Night 
HE is a poor woodsman who, in a 
forest of any kind, cannot quickly 
provide himself with shelter from rain 
or snow. It may be of palmetto leaves, 
of branches of trees or of bark from the 
trunk of a tree. The favoring trunk of 
a tree may keep off the storm, or in a 
rocky country a shelter can often be 
found under a projecting ledge or in 
a shallow cave. A good thing always 
to carry along is a rubber poncho for 
each person. It is good to roll around 
the bedding when en route to protect it 
from wet and dirt; or to put over one’s 
shoulders when traveling in rain or 
wet snow. When night comes, if the 
ground is wet and the heavens dry, 
spread it under your bed. If the re- 
verse, reverse it. With two small stakes 
at opposite sides of a bed for two, to 
support two corners of a poncho, the 
other two corners being stretched back- 
ward and held to the ground by a couple 
of stones or chunks of wood, a very 
good shelter is provided 
for your heads and 
shoulders. Then an- 
other poncho _ spread 
over the blankets to 
your feet, and you two 
can _ sleep blissfully 
through any ordinary 
rainy night. 
SENECA. 
Camp Outfit 
O as light as pos- 
sible. In a camp 
outfit, be governed by 
your ability to carry it. 
I have made a _ suc- 
cessful and _ entirely 
satisfactory expedition 
with a tin cup and 
pocket knife. Meat can be broiled on 
a stick. Flour can be transferred into 
dough in the hollow of a clean piece of 
bark and baked on.a flat stone, a chip 
or a piece of bark, before the fire, but 
a cup is positively needed for the coffee. 
Under such circumstances the addition 
of a frying-pan enables one to revel in 
positive, luxury. In it vou fry your 
meat, bake your bread, and can make 
your coffee. The tin cup is then supér- 
fluous. After the necessities add any- 
thing you want and can carry. In pro- 
visions, bread, meat and coffee are im- 
portant, though not indispensable. It 
is more comfortable to have them, and 
unless you are a first-rate rustler it is 
quite essential that you have plenty of 
staple articles of food. 
