upply. The stew put on the fire, Dick searched
until he found a piece of sapling about an inch and a half in diameter.
This is peeled off the bark and so made a rolling pin. A glass jam jar
was then emptied of its contents and laid to one side.

"Ah, I perceive that we are going to have hot biscuits for supper
tonight," remarked Phil, smacking his lips.

"Regular little Sherlock, aren't you?" said Garry with a laugh. "When
you see a chap make a rolling pin and a biscuit cutter, you immediately
reach the conclusion that he's going to make biscuits."

That was what Dick was intending to do. With a hot stew, there is
nothing more palatable than a stack of piping hot biscuits cooked in a
spider over a bed of red embers. They require but little work, only one
thing being necessary, and that is to rub the shortening through into
the flour. Many amateur campers wonder why the biscuits are flat or
doughy. It is because they either do not know that the shortening should
be ground in, or else, which is too often true, are too lazy to do the
work.

For the benefit of some of our readers who may want to go camping over
a summer week-end, the proper making of a pan of biscuits will be
described. To make a dozen biscuits, or enough for three hungry boys,
take a pint and a half of flour, a teaspoon and a half of baking powder,
half a heaping teaspoonful of salt, the equivalent of a heaping
tablespoonful of shortening, which may be bought by the can, (lard or
drippings will do equally as well) and about half a pint of cold water.
Stir the baking powder into the flour, then the salt. Then rub the
shortening thoroughly into the flour, till not a bit of it remains in
lumps or on the bottom of the mixing pan. Then stir in the water until
you have a thick dough. In the meantime have a hot bed of coals, then
dust a little flour on the bottom of one of your frying pans.

Finally roll out your dough with the home-made sapling rolling pin, and
use an old glass jar or a small round tin to cut your biscuits out with.
Knead over the bits that are left from cutting the biscuits out until
all the dough has been used. Put them in the frying pan, and if you have
no cover, use a second inverted pan for one.

Put this on the hot coals about twenty minutes before your supper is to
be ready, and a few moments later put on the coffee pot.

The result will be a supper that cannot be found in the finest of
hotels, especially if your appetite is sauced