Common Tents of the Open Country
Some Popular Tents
[Fig. 309] shows some of the ordinary forms of tents, the wall tent, the Baker tent and the canoe tent. [Fig. 310] shows a tent with a fly extending out in front, thus giving the piazza or front porch. In the background is a tepee tent. [Fig. 311] shows two small Baker tents in the background, and the Dan Beard tent in the foreground. These comprise the principal forms, but the open-front tents to-day are much in vogue with the campers. A mosquito netting in front will keep out the insects and allow the air to come in freely, whereas the old-fashioned way of closing the tent flap stops circulation of air and makes conditions as bad as that of a closed room in a big house, and the air becomes as foul as it did in the little red school houses and does now in the Courts of Justice, jails and other places of entertainment.