expensive task to put guy-lines and a wall of drilling on an A-tent, and
make new poles, or pitch the old ones upon posts. In either case you
should stay the tent with lines running from the top to the ground.

It has already been advised that women should have a stove; in general,
they ought not to depart so far from home ways as men do.

Rubber boots are almost a necessity for women and children during rainy
weather and while the dew is upon the grass.


SUMMER-HOUSES, SHEDS, AND BRUSH SCREENS.

There is little to be said of the summer-houses built at the seaside
near our large cities, since that is rather a matter of carpentry; nor
of portable houses; nor of lattice-work with painted paper; nor even of
a "schbang" such as I have often built of old doors, shutters, outer
windows, and tarred paper: any one who is ingenious can knock together
all the shelter his needs require or means allow. But, where you are
camping for a week or more, it pays you well to use all you have in
making yourself comfortable. A bush house, a canopy under which to eat,
and something better than plain "out-of-doors" to cook in, are among the
first things to attend to.

If you wish to plant firmly a tree that you have cut down, you may
perhaps be able to drive a stake larger than the trunk of the tree; then
loosen the stake by hitting it on the sides, and pull it out. You can do
this when you have no shovel, or when the soil is too hard to dig. Small
stakes wedged down the hole after putting in the tree will make it firm.