How to Camp Out

by John Mead Gould

INDEX.

Accidents, boy run over, [34].
how to avoid, [117].
Advice to parents, [105].
Afoot, ways to travel, [9]-[24].
Alcoholic stimulants, [55], [123].
Ammoniated opodeldoc for bites, [99].
Appetite, none first days, [55].
on return home, [105].
A-tents, [75]-[79], [95].
too small for ladies, [95].
Babies in camp, [94].
Baggage:—
Barrel, [32].
Blanket, [16]-[19].
Candles and lamps, [61].
Clothing, [35]-[38].
Cooking utensils, [42]-[46].
Cover for wagon, [25].
Food, [20], [47]-[49].
Haversack, [18].
Knapsack, [16].
Ladies' outfits, [94].
Mattress, [63].
Overcoat, [19], [58].
Overloading, [15], [90].
Packing a wagon, [26], [32].
Poles, [60], [73].
Pork, how carried, [48].
Shirts, [19].
Stove, [39]-[41].
Tents, [72]-[80].
Tub, [91].
Wagon, [31]-[33].
Baked beans, beef, and fish, [46].
Baker, Yankee, [43].
Barrel, on march for baggage, [32].
sunk for cellar, [48].
cut in two for tubs, [91].
Bathing, [52], [53], [64], [120].
Beans and pork, how baked, [46].
Beckets for tents, [79], [81].
Beds, [62]-[64].
Black flies, protection from, [98].
Blanket, woollen, [19], [22], [25], [94].
instead of knapsack, [16].
lining, [19].
rubber, [16], [22], [75].
Board floor for tent, [60].
Boat, don't sail experimentally, [118].
Boating, general advice, [90].
Bobbinet lace mosquito-bar, [99].
Boots and brogans, [36], [37].
Brush or bush houses, [69], [96].
Bug in ear, [126].
Bumpers for wagon-springs, [31].
Butter, how to keep, [47].
Camp, [60]-[71].
Beds, [62]-[64].
Brush-houses, [69], [96].
Candles and sluts, [62].
Care of food, [47]-[49].
Cellar, [48].
Children, [94].
Clothes-line, [61], [64].
Cold weather, [66].
Cooking, [44], [47].
Etiquette, [96].
Expenses, [83], [101].
Fire, [46], [66]-[69].
Flies and mosquitoes, [98].
Hammock, [64].
Hitching-post, [64], [96].
Independence, [12], [97].
Ladies, [41], [93]-[95].
Lamp and lantern, [61].
Mattress, [63].
Mosquito-bar, [98].
Outfit, [10]-[13], [20]-[22].
Shelters, [69]-[71], [96].
Sleeping, [55], [62].
Stoves, [39]-[43].
Tents, [72]-[89].

Camp-stoves, [39]-[43].
Candles and candlesticks, [61].
Captain for large party, [25]-[34].
Care of food, [47]-[49].
Cart, pulling a, [115].
Catching fish in nets, [101].
Cattle-paths the safest, [118].
Cellar, sunk barrel, [48].
Chafing the skin, [16], [52]-[54].
Cheap living, [102].
Children in camp, [94].
Chimneys, [67], [68].
Cholera morbus, [126].
Cloth for tent, [82].
how to preserve, [83].
Clothes-line in tent, [61].
on camp-ground, [64].
Clothing, [35]-[38].
made early, [10].
for mountain climbing, [58].
at night, [19], [64].
Climbing mountains, [14], [57].
with safety, [117].
Coffee better than alcohol, [55], [124].
pot, [41], [45].
Cold weather, what to do in, [66].
"taking cold," [118].
Collars to shirts, [35].
Compass points not known, [91].
Cooking, [44]-[47].
utensils, [20], [42]-[46].
stoves, [39]-[41].
Costiveness, [55].
Cover for wagon, [25].
Cunners, how skinned, [100].
how caught in net, [101].
Daily tour of duty, [26]-[29].
Diary, how to keep, [107]-[112].
Diarrhœa, [126].
Dishes, [11].
to be brought on table, [97].
Dish-cloths, [49].
Drawers, [36].
Drawing sketches advised, [109].
Drinking water, [51], [121].
coffee and tea, [55], [124].
oatmeal, [52].
liquors, [55], [123].
Driving a wagon, [32], [34].
a stake into ground, [96].
Drowning, to revive from, [126]-[128].
Dutch oven, [42].
Eat sparingly on return home, [105].
before walking, [113].
Etiquette of camp, [96].
Exercise not good after meals, [50].
Expenses, [10], [15], [23], [26], [83].
of trips to White Mts., [34].
of a supposed trip, [101]-[105].
Farmers, how to treat, [56].
Fatigue, [54], [56], [122].
Fiddles of a tent, [82].
"Fighting cut" to hair, [11].
Fire, danger from, [68]-[70].
kind of to cook upon, [46].
for cold weather, [66], [69].
First day's march, [51], [52], [55].
Fish, how preserved, [48].
how to skin, [100].
how to catch in nets, [101].
Fishermen's treatment of cloth, [84].
Flies and mosquitoes, [98].
short hair no protection, [12].
mosquito-bars, [99].
Fly for tent, [82].
Floor for tent, [60].
Food, [20].
care of, [47]-[49].
expense of, [102].
Foot-soreness, [52]-[54].
(see shoes), [36].
Frying, [44]-[46].
Frying-pan, tin plate, or canteen, [44].
bring it on the table, [97].
Getting ready, 9-[13].
Glycerine for sunburn, &c., [53].
Guy-lines of tent, [81].
Hair, how cut, [11].
Hammock, [64].
Hand-barrow, [60].
Harness, [30], [32].
Hatchet, [20].
Haversack, how made, [18].
Hip-pantaloons, [37].
Hitching-post, [64], [96].
Horse and wagon for baggage, [25]-[34].
Horseback tour, [90].
Hotels to be avoided, [56], [105].
"How to do it," [113]-[116].
Hunger, none first day, [55].
and fatigue, [122].
Hunter's camp, [69].
Hygienic notes, [117]-[129].
Independence in camp, [12], [97].
in modes of travel, [115].
Insect in ear, [126].
Knapsack, [11], [16].
the roll a substitute, [16]-[17].
Ladies need a stove, [41].
climbing mountains, [58].
as pedestrians, [93].
outfits for, [94], [95].
and children in camp, [94].
Lamp and lantern, [61].
Leggings for foot-travellers, [54].
Lime-water on tent-cloth, [84].
Liquors not needed, [55], [123].
Lobsters caught in net, [101].
Lost, whereabouts, and direction, [91].
Lumbermen's way to carry pork, [48].

Lumbermen's way to cook beans, [46].
Map, study before travel, [92].
Management of party, [25]-[29], [33], [34].
Marching, [50]-[59].
in army, [50].
first day's troubles, [51].
second day's fatigue, [54].
how fast, [23], [50], [102], [114].
hundred miles a week, [102].
"How to do it," [113], [114].
Mark name on baggage, [10].
Mattress, [63].
Medicines, [55].
Mildew, how to prevent, [83].
Mosaic law, [65].
Mosquitoes and flies, [11], [98].
Mountain climbing, [14], [57].
for ladies, [58].
Mutton tallow for chafing, &c., [53].
Nails in shoes, [37].
Net, mosquito, [98].
to catch fish, [101].
Note-book, [10], [110].
Oatmeal in water, [52].
Offal to be buried, [65].
Oil of cedar and pennyroyal, [99].
for sunburn, chafing, &c., [53].
for harness and boots, [32].
Opodeldoc for mosquito-bites, [99].
Outfit, [10]-[13], [19]-[22], [102].
Overcoat not needed, [19].
needed on mountains, [58].
Overloading, [15], [90], [102].
Packing a wagon, [26], [32].
away tents, [89].
Pantaloons, [37].
in stockings, [54].
Parents, advice to, [105].
Perspiration, nature of, [120].
Pillow carried by officer, [21].
Poisons, treatment for, [128].
Poles for tent, [60], [73], [79], [82].
how made, [86].
Politeness, [56], [97].
Pork and beans baked, [47].
how carried, [48].
Postal cards as stencil-plates, [10].
Potatoes for food, [103].
candlesticks, [61].
Preparations, [9].
Privies, [65].
Public resorts to be avoided, [56], [105].
Racing with locomotives, [114].
Rations, [22], [102]-[104].
Recipes for cooking, [46]-[47].
Reckoning lost, [91].
Rests frequent advised, [50], [113], [114].
should not be long, [50].
at halts, [50], [56].
to prevent sunstroke, [121].
Roll better than knapsack, [17].
Rotten trees dangerous, [60].
Route should be known, [9], [23], [92].
Rubber blanket, [16], [22], [58].
for tents, [75].
boots for dew, [95].
Sail-boat, [90], [118].
Salve for sunburn, chafing, &c., [53].
Screens of bushes, [69], [96].
Second day's march fatiguing, [54].
Shaving the head not advised, [11].
Shelters, [69]-[71], [96].
Shelter-tent, [17], [19], [70], [72]-[75].
how to pitch, [70], [73]-[75].
how made, [72]-[74].
not good for ladies, [94].
illustration of, [129].
Shirts instead of overcoat, [19].
how made, [35].
undershirts, [38].
Shoes, [36].
slippers, [120].
Sickness:—
Liability to, [14], [23], [55], [106].
Remedies, [120], [121], [126].
Insect in ear, [126].
Cholera morbus, [126].
Drowning, to restore from, [126]-[128].
Poisons, treatment for, [128].
Sinks, [65].
Sketching advised, [109].
Skinning fish, [100].
Sleep on a hay-mow, [23].
difficult first night, [54].
for your comrades, [55].
(see beds), [62].
general advice about, [63], [64].
Slippers, [120].
Sluts for light, [62].
Smudge for mosquitoes, &c., [100].
Soap for foot-soreness, &c., [53].
tents, [83].
Socks, [37].
Sod-cloth of tents, [78], [81].
Soldier's weight of outfit, [15].
German, [16].
rule for drinking, [51].
trousers in socks, [54].
preventive for chafing, [54].
mattress, [63].
shelter-tents, [72].
rations, [103].
Spade, uses of, [47], [65], [88].
Speed proper to walk, [23], [51], [102], [114].
Spirits not needed, [55].
Stake, how driven, [96].
Starvation, do not risk, [21].
Stays to tent, [84].
Stencil-plate of postal card, [11].
Stimulation, nature and effects, [123].

Stockings, best kind on march, [37].
pantaloons tucked into, [54].
take off when wet, [120].
Stoves, &c., [11], [39]-[43].
portable, [39]-[41].
inside tent when cold, [66].
top, [42].
Summer-houses, screens, &c., [96].
Sunburn, [53].
Sunstroke, [121].
Suspenders, [38].
Supplies for camping enumerated, [13].
Swimming, [118].
Table manners in camp, [96].
Taking cold, [118].
Tanning tent-cloth, [84].
Tea better than alcohol, [55], [124].
Tents, [72]-[89].
best kind to use, [19], [88].
made in wagon, [25].
how to make "shelter," [72].
how to make "A," [75].
how to make "wall," [80].
how to pitch "wall," [85].
cloth for, [82].
cloth, how preserved, [83], [89].
fly, [82].
Tent-poles, whether to carry, [20].
how made, [73], [79], [86].
hand-barrow, [60].
Tent-pins, [20], [87].
Thirst, [51], [52], [121].
Tobacco, when to use, [124].
Tools, [25].
Training before journey, [12], [102].
Travelling acquaintances, [97].
Travelling afoot, [12], [14]-[34].
horseback, [90].
boating, [90], [118].
expenses, [15], [23], [26], [34], [102].
how fast, [23], [50], [102], [114].
with hand-cart, [115].
Trench for offal, [65].
around tent, [84].
for fireplace, [67].
Trousers, [37]-[38].
Tub in boat, [91].
Ventilation, [64].
Wagon, general advice, [25], [31]-[33].
made into tent, [25].
man to walk behind, [34].
Walking, [50]-[59].
how fast, [23], [50], [102], [114].
at noon, [114].
parties in White Mts., [34].
one hundred miles, [102].
eat before, [113].
Wall-tent, how made, &c., [80].
to pitch quickly, [85].
Warm, how to keep, [66]-[70].
Water for drinking, [51].
how to carry in pails, [68].
none on mountains, [58].
Weekly supply for two men, [102].
Weight of outfit, [15], [21]-[23].
Wet and taking cold, [120].
clothes, weight, [22].
Whims of soldiers, [21].
Woodman's camp, [69].
Woollen blanket, [19], [23].
shirt, [19].
Yankee baker, [43].

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