The boy's camp book; a guidebook based upon the annual encampment of a boy scout troop; the second of a series of handy volumes of information and inspiration . TENTS AND TENTING 35 four in the last. The Scouts much prefer to camp by twos,but one 9x9 tent costs only three fourths of what two7x7 tents cost. These 9x9 wall tents will serve all the purposes of thecamp except as follows: The Mess-Tent. — For the mess-tent the average BoyScout troop will need nothing better than a good big tentfly, pitched wedge-tent fashion. The ridge pole should beten feet, or perhaps more, from the ground, to pr
The boy's camp book; a guidebook based upon the annual encampment of a boy scout troop; the second of a series of handy volumes of information and inspiration . TENTS AND TENTING 35 four in the last. The Scouts much prefer to camp by twos,but one 9x9 tent costs only three fourths of what two7x7 tents cost. These 9x9 wall tents will serve all the purposes of thecamp except as follows: The Mess-Tent. — For the mess-tent the average BoyScout troop will need nothing better than a good big tentfly, pitched wedge-tent fashion. The ridge pole should beten feet, or perhaps more, from the ground, to provide suf-. So-Called Compartment Tent, With Fly An excellent tent for a permanent camp, and an ideal mess-tent But it is expensive ficient pitch to the roof and still leave headroom toward theeaves, which should be guyed about four feet from theground. A fly made of 10-ounce U. S. Army standard khakiduck 7i yards wide by 25 feet long (eleven widths of 28-inchcanvas) makes a good shelter for three tables accommodat-ing sixteen Scouts each. Cost? Well, a good deal, I mustadmit, but a regular-mess tent, made like the compartmenttent illustrated, but without the fly, would, in the samesize, come to half as much again, at least. 36 TEE BOYS CAMP BOOK Really, the best luck you can have, short of having a mess-tent presented to you, is to find you can buy a good second-hand one. I have seen them listed in catalogues at sur-prisingly low prices, a 20 x 30 tent, with 6-foot side walls,complete with poles, costing no more than the fly I havedescribed. Dealers in condemned military supplies gener-ally have
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