A stove like this will cost about ten dollars; but it is a treasure for
a large party or one where there are ladies, or those who object to
having their eyes filled with smoke. The coffee-pot and tea-pot for this
stove have "sunk bottoms," and hence will boil quicker by presenting
more surface to the fire. You should cover the bottom of the stove with
four inches or more of earth before making a fire in it.

To prevent the pots and kettles from smutting every thing they touch,
each has a separate bag in which it is packed and carried.

The funnel was in five joints, each eighteen inches long, and made upon
the "telescope" principle, which is objectionable on account of the smut
and the jams the funnel is sure to receive. In practice we have found
three lengths sufficient, but have had two elbows made; and with these
we can use the stove in an old house, shed, or tent, and secure good
draught.

If you have ladies in your party, or those to whom the rough side of
camping-out offers few attractions, it is well to consider this stove
question. Either of these here described must be handled and transported
with care.

A more substantial article is the Dutch oven, now almost unknown in many
of the States. It is simply a deep, bailed frying-pan with a heavy
cast-iron cover that fits on and overhangs the top. By putting the oven
on the coals, and making a fire on the cover, you can bake in it very
well. Thousands of these were used by the army during the war, and they
are still very extensively used in the South. If their weight is no
objection to your plans, I should advise you to have a Dutch oven. They