Find the best place near the tent for
A Table,
and make the table in true woodsman fashion. Take four strong forked sticks, sharpened on the lower end, and drive two of them into the ground in a straight line about one foot or more apart, and the remaining two in a line with, and two feet from the first sticks ([Fig. 254]). Have the sticks stand above the ground about two feet, or the height you want the table, and keep the crotch, or angle where the two forks separate, on all the sticks at an equal height from the ground. Lay a stick across each pair of forked sticks. Get a piece of board, rest one end on each of the supports you have just made, and you will have a rustic table, strong and suitable for any camp ([Fig. 255]). Use wooden boxes for seats. Select one box for your
Safe or Cupboard
in which to keep supplies and camping utensils. Fit one or two shelves, made from a side of another wooden box, in the cupboard. Do this by first nailing strips of wood, for cleats, on the inside of each side of the cupboard at equal distances from the bottom ([Fig. 256]). Slide in the shelves, resting each on two pieces of wood ([Fig. 257]). Set a lot of lids of tin cans in the cupboard to serve as camping plates, also a few tin spoons, an old table knife, a kitchen fork or two, three tin cups, and a smooth, clean, folded piece of white paper for a tablecloth.
Fig. 258.—Sink the pail part way into the ground.
