
It was the same with the open space 
camper: he added ends to his shelter, 
thereby forming the wedge tent, and 
_with the use of more bedding, could 
| manage well. But the outcome was 
the more roomy wall tent for a perma- 
nent camp, using a camp stove and less 
bedding For travelling, the pryamid 
tent evolved too from the wedge to 
lessen weight and increase its resis- 
tance to the wind. Camping shelter 
forms interesting consideration, for 
from the open lean-to and the wedge 
tent comes the whole conglomeration 
of the present day tent forms. They 
all have their good points if each is 
used for the purpose intended. 
To form our tent we wanted a shelter 
quick to erect as a travelling camp, 
to stand all changes of weather. It 
had to be easy to air and let the sun- 
shine in, also it had to have an awning 
front and an opening to a cheery night 
fire occasionally. The Baker and wedge 
tents combined have these qualities. So 
it didn’t take us long to gobble up said 
qualities and with a roll of number 10 
duck of 22-inch width, a coil of number 
4 cord, number 16 thread and beeswax, 
I made a home made tent 7 by 7 feet 
and 6 feet high. In shape, when closed, 
it is a wedge tent, and, with one side 
raised, an awning is used for pleasant 
weather. When the awning is thrown 
back, a reflecting fire place built in 
'ront and panels, pulling the sack 
from the rear wall outward, put in 
place, we have a camp fire tent that 
zoes a point better than the Baker, as 
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the ends of the wedge tent tend to act 
as draught guards. 
To the two end edges of the awning 
I sewed flaps, so when the tent is up, 
wedge shape, they are made fast with 
strings. Also, I have the regular end 
entrance as in all wedge tents. 
JIM FERGUSON, 
St. Louis, Mo. 
Spring Bough Bed for Camping 
Bae than the usual bought bed 
built on the ground, one can make 
a spring base upon which to place the 
boughs and be off the ground and 
more comfortable. Get two logs of 
about the same size, place them about 
six feet apart. Place across the logs 
smaller saplings of nearly uniform 
size to form the spring support for 
the boughs which you can lay over 
the saplings and build up to the de- 
sired thickness. The thicker the 
boughs the more comfortable the bed, 
and the sapling supports will give an 
added spring to the camp bed. A 
blanket or two over the boughs and 
you have a fine camp bed that has an 
added fragrance of the out-of-doors 
of fresh-cut boughs of evergreen. If 
the boughs cut are of varying sizes, 
place the larger ones at the bottom 
and build up on them with the smaller 
sizes. This will insure the larger 
stems of the boughs being near the 
bottom and covered, preventing possi- 
ble humps in the bed. 
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Wau-side and Fire-side Tent - 
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Solid Bed of Coals 
AMPERS all state that cooking 
_““ should be done over a “solid bed 
of coals,” but unless you know this lit- 
tle kink it is not so easy to get the 
coals just where you want them. When 
making the fire on which to broil some 
of those little brook trout which you 
have just taken off the hook, this is the 
way to manage. Place two short logs 
of even height where you want your 
fire, then place an even layer of green 
hardwood sticks about the size of your 
wrist between the logs. The logs must 
not be farther apart than the size of 
your camp grid allows. Then build 
your fire on the top of the green hard- 
wood sticks and start to clean your 
trout. By the time you have them 
ready for the pan, all rolled nicely in 
cornmeal—if you wish to fry them— 
or neatly scored through the backbone 
in several places, so they will not curl, 
and strips of bacon pinned to them with 
hardwood pins—if you wish to broil 
them—the sticks will have turned into 
the solid bed of coals so much talked 
about and so seldom achieved. 
Game Carrier 
O make a game carrier at no ex- 
pense and very little labor, take 
a strip of harness leather long enough 
to go over your shoulders (about 27 
inches), sew ends of strong belt 
leather. These slit carefully into 
fringe-like sections and then make a 
slit in each section to hold the birds. 

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