How to Camp Out eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 107 pages of information about How to Camp Out.

How to Camp Out eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 107 pages of information about How to Camp Out.

Finally, leave your business in such shape that it will not call you back; and do not carry off keys, &c., which others must have; nor neglect to see the dentist about the tooth that usually aches when you most want it to keep quiet.

For convenience the following list is inserted here.  It is condensed from a number of notes made for trips of all sorts, except boating and horseback-riding.  It is by no means exhaustive, yet there are very many more things named than you can possibly use to advantage upon any one tour.  Be careful not to be led astray by it into overloading yourself, or filling your camp with useless luggage.  Be sure to remember this.

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          Axe (in cover). 
          Axle-grease. 
          Bacon. 
          Barometer (pocket). 
          Bean-pot. 
          Beans (in bag). 
          Beef (dried). 
          Beeswax. 
          Bible. 
          Blacking and brush. 
          Blankets. 
          Boxes. 
          Bread for lunch. 
          Brogans (oiled). 
          Broom. 
          Butter-dish and cover. 
          Canned goods. 
          Chalk. 
          Cheese. 
          Clothes-brush. 
          Cod-line. 
          Coffee and pot. 
          Comb. 
          Compass. 
          Condensed milk. 
          Cups. 
          Currycomb. 
          Dates. 
          Dippers. 
          Dishes. 
          Dish-towels. 
          Drawers. 
          Dried fruits. 
          Dutch oven. 
          Envelopes. 
          Figs. 
          Firkin (see p. 48). 
          Fishing-tackle. 
          Flour (prepared). 
          Frying-pan. 
          Guide-book. 
          Half-barrel. 
          Halter. 
          Hammer. 
          Hard-bread. 
          Harness (examine!). 
          Hatchet. 
          Haversack. 
          Ink (portable bottle). 
          Knives (sheath, table, pocket and butcher.)
          Lemons. 
          Liniment. 
          Lunch for day or two. 
          Maps. 
          Matches and safe. 
          Marline. 
          Meal (in bag). 
          Meal-bag (see p. 32). 
          Medicines. 
          Milk-can. 
          Molasses. 
          Money ("change"). 
          Monkey-wrench. 
          Mosquito-bar. 
          Mustard and pot. 
          Nails. 
          Neat’s-foot oil. 
          Night-shirt. 
          Oatmeal. 
          Oil-can. 
          Opera-glass. 
          Overcoat. 
          Padlock and key. 
          Pails. 
          Paper.
            " collars. 
          Pens. 
          Pepper. 
          Pickles. 
          Pins. 
          Portfolio. 
          Postage stamps. 
          Postal cards. 

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