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How to Make Camp
The ideal camping ground is, of course, by the side of a lake or river. Make sure of your water supply and drainage, and have the open side face the south. The kind of tent used is called a wall tent.
The poles used can be cut in the woods; the stakes and lines should be carried. A fire should be at least twenty feet away from the tent, to avoid danger of fire and inconvenience from smoke. A table erected will be found a luxury when compared with eating while squatted around the fire. A cupboard, perhaps suspended from a tree near the table could contain dishes and salt, pepper, vinegar, etc. Do not keep sugar with the other food supplies or you will have all the ants in the country paying you a visit.
Such a campsite described can be set up in just a couple of hours. You will need an axe, fishing tackle, waterproof match safes, pliers, sharp knives, some peroxide and Vaseline, clean cloths for bandages for scratches, extra pairs of shoes, sun hats, and pillows.
Here are a few sketches that will give the beginner an idea of how to set up a canvas quickly. Fig. 1 is the lean-to, and has two forked poles about six feet high in front and a cross-bar that rests upon them. A stake is driven at each of the rear corners for guying. The canvas for this style of tent should be of oblong shape, say about 18 x 8 feet.
Another very simple and practical shelter tent is shown in Fig. 2. It is used mostly as protection from the sun and the ends are open to admit the breezes. The same instructions as to canvas and poles that were given in regard to the lean-to hold good here; in fact, the material required for each tent is the same and you can erect your shelter in the form of Fig. 1 or like Fig. 2, whichever suits your convenience best.
In Fig. 3 we have a simpler shelter than either of the foregoing. No poles are required and the canvas need not be of any particular shape, although a piece nearly square will be the handiest. This is a tent that you can rig up very quickly on the bank of a creek when fishing, to keep your lunch cool and dry if a thunder storm happens to come along.
Fig. 4 is a rigging for the home that enables the sleeper to have his head and shoulders out of doors. Doctors all over the country are unceasingly preaching fresh air and it behooves us to heed their advice. It is best to begin to sleep outdoors in the summer, so that our system will be accustomed to it before the cold weather comes on. This shelter, supposed to be erected in the rear of the house, consists of a bracket shelf that may be bolted to the house, so as to admit of being readily removed. The canvas is erected in the manner shown or in any way that affords protection from dew, wind, and rain.