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Handicrafts 241 how; and of all things, comfort at night is most essential. Every dealer in camp outfits can produce an array of dif- ferent camp beds, cots, and sleeping bags, that shows how important it is to be dry and warm when you sleep. The simplest plan is the oldest one—two pair of blankets and waterproof undersheet on a neatly laid bed of evergreen boughs, dry leaves, or dry grass. The ideal way of laying the boughs is shown in the figure below. When I cawt get grub of the Broadway sort, I'll fatten on camper’s fare, I'll tramp all day and at night resort To a bed boughed down with care. STAKE STAKE~ But there are few places a now in eastern America where i: you are allowed to cut boughs freely. In any case you can- not take the bough bed with you when you move, and it takes too much time to make at each camp. Sleeping bags I gave up long ago. They are too diffi- cult to air, or to adjust to dif- ferent temperatures. Rubber beds are luxurious, but heavy for a pack outfit, and in cold weather they need thick blankets over them, otherwise they are too cool. So the one ideal bed for the eyes Camper, light, comfortable and ZX) of wildwood stuff, is the In- dian or willow bed. STAKE w a STAKE~ ILs IVES The Woodcraft Willow Bed The only bed I know of which is light, portable, wood- crafty, made of wildwood stuff that can be got anywhere, and costing nothing but a little labor, is the willow or prairie bed used by all the Plains Indians. This is how it is made: On your first short hike to the country, go to some stream bank or swamp, and cut about