so I can cover these potatoes over. You will find a
can of condensed milk and the sugar in the chest. Please set them on
the table while I fix the fire."

"You have plenty of good dry wood."

"Yes, I always come over to the camp before the trapping season
begins and cut up a good lot of wood. And those old elevated stove
ovens make the best kind of a stove for a camp. Fred, you pour the
coffee while I take the potatoes up and we will partake of this
frugal meal. In the morning for breakfast we will have bear steak,
boiled partridge and buck-wheat cakes."

"Well Fred, I feel better, how is it with you?"

"Oh, I feel like a fighting cock now, but I was too hungry for
anything. Well Fred, the dish water is hot in that pan on the stove,
if you will wash the dishes, I will stretch those skins and dress
those partridges. Now if you will spread the blankets on the bunk, I
will mix the cakes for breakfast, and then we will be ready for bed."

"How large is this camp?"

"The logs were cut fourteen and sixteen feet long, so that makes it
about twelve by fourteen on the inside. The roof is good and steep.
Yes, I like a ridge roof and half pitch them, you do not have to make
the body so high. Yes, I always chunk well and calk good with moss
before I mud it, then you have a good warm camp. Yes, I like to have
a 12 x 20, two small sash in each gable."

"Does that roof leak?"

"No, a roof put on with good hemlock bark like that will not leak and
will last a long time. Fred we must bunk down for we must be moving
early in the morning."

"Come, Fred, turn out, I have breakfast about ready."

"Why it is not morning, is it?"

"Yes, it is six o'clock and we must be moving as soon as we can see,
for we have a big day's work before us. Yes, Fred, everything tastes
good in the woods. I suppose a keen appetite has something to do with
that. Well, it is light, so that we can see to travel, so we will be
going. Yes, Fred, you can come over with me again and I will show you
how to set traps, many different ways, to catch different animals,
and we might have a bear in a pen."

"Do you catch bear in a pen?"

"Yes, and I like a pen for a bear better than a steel trap. No
getting away if the pen is properly made."

"Well, here is the bear trap and there has been a wild cat at work at
those inwards, so you see I did not bring that trap along for
nothing. Fred, you place a few of those bushy limbs around on the
upper side of those in