some boneless bacon and fat pork. With the latter, you can cook your
fish, and the former is good for a relish with whatever fresh meat you
may secure. Then you should have some good ground coffee in a tightly
closed box. Some tea in a screw-top glass preserve jar, sugar, salt,
prepared flour, corn meal, rice, beans, oatmeal, condensed milk,
evaporated cream, crackers, and as much canned or dried fruits as you
can transport without overloading--these are not necessaries, but all
of them will come handy.

_Worth Remembering_. It is not well for a lot of boys, no matter how
strong and intelligent, to go off camping unless one of their number
has had practical experience in that kind of life. It would be better
to have a man in the party and to follow his instructions, as a
soldier obeys his superior.

Before starting off it will be well to learn just what each member of
the party can do best, and assign him to that work for the time.
Afterwards it might be advisable to take turns at the work thought to
be least agreeable.

Cooking, washing dishes, gathering fuel and keeping the camp in order
are just as essential as hunting or fishing, more so, indeed; for
cooking, etc., are necessary, while fishing and hunting are pleasures.

Keep your own person clean and carry along needles and thread so that
you may be able to repair the rents in your own clothes.

Before going into camp every boy should know how to wash, dry and fold
his own flannel shirt, stockings and handkerchiefs.