“Didn’t forget the salt, did you, the way you did when we went camping before and had to borrow of a tramp?”
“There’s lots of salt.”
“How about condensed milk?” asked Bart. “Remember how you dropped it in the river that day?”
“Do I? And how Ned howled because he had to drink black coffee.”
“Maybe we’d better take the sled along,” suggested Ned, as he noticed it was beginning to snow. “If it gets deep enough we can haul the things on it, instead of on the wagon.”
The camp supplies, including a shelter tent, had been placed on a wagon, on which they were to be taken to where the boys decided to make their first camp. On the large vehicle was a smaller one, which the chums could load with all their stuff and haul through the woods, in case they found it advantageous to move to a section where there was better hunting.
“Wait a minute, I’ve got an idea!” exclaimed Bart.
“Make a note of it before you forget it!” called Fenn. “Good ideas are scarce.”
“We can take runners along for the small wagon,” Bart went on, not noticing his chum’s sarcasm. “There are some adjustable ones I made a couple of years ago. Then we’ll be prepared for anything.”
The wagon was one the boys had built for themselves several seasons past. They used to cart their camp outfit on it when they did not transport the things by boat up or down the river. As Bart had said, there were adjustable runners, which could be fitted over the wheels, without taking them off, and thus on short notice the wagon could be transformed into a sled.