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The sloop was made for business, and the cabin harmonized exactly with the sloop painted pine, wooden bunks without mattresses, camp-blankets, duffel-bags slung up because all the floor place had been requisitioned for sleeping purposes. We were anchored a hundred feet off land from Pilot Cove, on the uninhabited north shore. The mosquitoes had adventured on the deep. We lay half asleep.
So he was able to sleep until earliest daylight. At that time the mosquitoes again found him out. Nine out of ten perhaps ninety-nine out of a hundred sleep in open tents. It should have no openings. Suspend this affair inside your tent by means of cords or tapes. Drop it about you. Spread it out. Lay rod-cases, duffel-bags, or rocks along its lower edges to keep it spread.
To radiate good-will, take things as they come and enjoy them, and to do your full share of entertainment and fun-making this is the true camp spirit. =Camp Outfits. Clothing. Personal Outfits. Camp Packs. Duffel-Bags and What to Put in Them=
If you have forgotten a few items, tie the things to the bottom of the blanket-roll and let them hang like tassels. =Duffel-Bag= Articles for general use while at camp can be packed together in one or more duffel-bags; if but one bag is needed, provisions might go in the same receptacle when space and weight permit. It is much better, however, to have a separate bag for provisions.
The waterproof duffel-bags usually sold are too light in texture and wear through. A heavier grade should be used. The small duffel-bag is very convenient for hammock and clothing, but generally the thing wanted will be at the bottom of the bag! We took with us a number of small cotton bags. As cotton is very absorbent, I had them paraffined.
The termites got into our tent on the sand- flat, ate holes in Cherrie's mosquito-net and poncho, and were starting to work at our duffel-bags, when we discovered them. Packing the loads across was simple. Dragging the heavy dugouts was labor. The biggest of the two water-logged ones was the heaviest. Lyra and Kermit did the job.
If you're trying to ratch off a lee shore it's no time to be pulling down your canvas." He took a jug out of the closet, and went to the low building. The chairman followed along, not comforted. The woodsmen had piled their duffel-bags in corners and were waiting. There were long tables up and down the centre of the room. They were flanked by benches.
It is well to have another cloth disk attached to one spot at the top of the bag, to cover the contents before the draw-strings are fastened. A great variety of desirable camp packs, including duffel-bags, pack-straps, harness, and tump-lines, may be purchased at the camp-outfitter's; investigate before deciding upon home-made camp packs.
"Ben, tell 'em to drop those duffel-bags and rush that gang of steers out of my yard." He pointed at the flock of constituents. Niles had begun fresh harangue in regard to despots, addressing the new arrivals. They did not seem to be especially interested.
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