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Show GOOD SUGGESTIONS FOR CAMPING-OUT PARTIES Ono of the simplest nnd most practical prac-tical forniB of bake oven 'can bo mndo of clay nnd an old barrel. Homovo ono head of the barrel, scoop out a spaco In tho nearest bank and fit tho barrel In (tig. 1). If tho mud or clay Is not damp enough moisten It and plaster It over tho barrel to tho depth of a foot or moro, leaving a spaco for a chimney at tho back end, whero rart of a stavo has been cut away. Around this plnco build a chimney of sticks, arrange log cabin fashion and plastered with mud (llg. 2). Aftor FI0.1.riAR.Ret, IN BANK. ,- H3.1. HEATING THE CVE this mako a good, lousing Are tn tho barrel and keep adding fuel until all tho staves aro burned out and tho surrounding sur-rounding clay Is baked hard. This mnkes an oven that will bake ns well, If not better, thnn nny now patented stavo or rnngo nt homo. To use It build n fire Inside nnd let It burn until the oven In thoroughly heated, then rako out all tho coal nnd embers, put your dinner In nnd closo up tho front with tho head of tho barrel, bar-rel, preserved for this purpose. Tho clay will remain hot for several hours and keep tho Insldo of tho ovon hot enough to roast meal or bako bread. If thero bo no bank convenient, or If you hnvo no barrel with which to build this stylo of ovon, there aro other methods that will answer for nil tho cooking necessary to a party of boys camping out. Sovcral boys once built a flreplaco of flat stones flG. 3. A aVotlE STOVE FIG 5. RUSTIC CHAIR as In flguro ;! covered It with a thin pleco of slnto, cleaned tho II sh thoy had caught, nnd with their skins still on placed them upon tho slate. When thoy wero brown upon ono Bldo thoy turned them over until they wero thoroughly cqoKed. Then with grew sticks they lifted off the tlsh and placed them upon pieces of clean bark. Tho skin adhered to tho stono and tho meat camo off In smoking, snowy pieces, which wero eaten with the aid of pocket knives and rustic forks mado of small green twigs, with tho forked ends sharpened. If stono cannot bo had to answer for this stovo, there still remains tho old, prlmltlvo campllro and pot hook. Tho very sight of this Iron pot swinging swing-ing over a blazing flro suggests soup, to cat which with any comfort spoons nro necessary. These aro quickly and easily made by thrusting clam or mussel mus-sel shells Into splits mndo In tho ends of sticks. A splendid butter knlfo enn bo mado from tho shell of a razor oyster with a llttlo enro In a similar mnnncr (seo flguro 1). If you stny any tlmo In your forest home you can, by a llttlo Ingenuity, add many comforts anil conveniences. For Instnuco. flguro f shows tho manner man-ner of making an oxcollent rustic chair of two stout poles und two cross poles, to which aro fastened tho ends of n pleco of canvas, carpet or leather, which, swinging loose, Ills Itself exactly ex-actly to your form, making a most comfortable easy chair In which to rest or tnko a nap after a hard dny's trnmp. It often happens that tho peculiar pe-culiar formation of somo stump or branch suggests new styles of scats. A tablo can bo very readily made by driving four forked sticks Into tho ground for logs, nnd covering tho cross sticks upon tho top with pieces of birch or other smooth bark. Figure 6 shows n table mndo In this manner, with ono pleco of bark removed to ro-veal ro-veal Its construction. |