Tilings to Know and Do Z89 MosqnitoM, Black FUes, etc. If you are camping in mosquito or fly season, the tr^ may be ruined if you are not fully prepared. For extreme cases, use the ready-made head-nets. They are hot, but effectual. You can easily get used to the net; no one can stand the flies. In my Arctic trip f 1907, we could not have endured life without the nets. Indians and all wore them. Of the various dopes that are used, one of the simplest and best is Colonel N. Fletcher's, given in Kephart's "Book of Camping and Woodcraft ' ' ; "Pure pine tar i oz. Oil pennyrojral i oz. Vaseline 3 ozs. "Mix cold in a mortar. If you wish, you can add 3 per cent, carbolic acid to above. Some make it 1 1 ozs. tar." Most drug shops keep ready-made dopes under such names as Citronella, Repellene, Lollakapop, etc. lighting a Fire ^ The day Columbus landed (probably) the natives remarked: White man fool, make big fire, can't go near; Indian make httle fire and sit happy." We all know that a camp without a campfire would be no camp at all; its chief est charm would be absent. Your first care, then, is to provide for a small fire and pre- vent Its spreading. In the autumn this may mean very elabo- rate clearing, or burning, or wettmg of a space around the fire. In the winter it means nothing. Cracked Jimmy, in "Two Little Savages," gives very practical direcUons for lighting a fire anywhere in the timbered northern part of America, thus:
- ' o curl of burch bark as dry as it can be,
Then some twigs of soft wood, dead, but on the tree, Last of all some pine-knots to make the kittle foam. And there's ajireto make you think you're setHn' ri^ at ham."
