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212 Woodcnft ManiMl for Oiris want to set it down, you must make a hole in the ground for the candle, or if on a table, set it on two blocks. (Cut on this page.) Another style is described in a recent letter from Hamlin Garland: "Apropos of improved camp lights, I had a new one 'sprung on me,' this summer: A forest ranger and I were visiting a miner, about a mile from our camp. It came on dark, pitch dark, and when we started home, we couM not foUow the trail. JLiU for hJiflti* Mo " M rot It was windy as well as dark, and matches did very little good. So back we went to the cabin. The ranger then picked up an old tomato can, punched a hole in the side,thrt<)t a candle up through the hole, lighted it, and took the can b, ae disk which had been cut from the top. The whole thing was now a boxed light, shining ahead like a searchlight, and the wind did not affect it at all! I've been camping, as you know, for thirty years, but this little trick was new to me. Perhaps it is new to you." H. G. Still another style, giving a l)Ctter light, is made by heating an ordinary clear glass quart bottle pretty hot in the fire, then dii^ing the bottom part in cold water; this causes the bottom o crack off. The candle is placed in the neck, flamie in*^, and the bottle neck sunk in the ground,