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d dried beef Apple sauce Gingerbread Bread and Butter. FRIDAY BREAKFAST Oatmeal Codfish cakes Bread and butter Cocoa. DINNER Fried weak fish Stewed tomatoes Boiled potatoes Vanilla ice cream. SUPPER Vegetable soup Bread and butter Sweet cake. SATURDAY BREAKFAST Puffed Rice Fried eggs Bread and butter Cocoa. DINNER Escalloped salmon Rice Boiled Tomatoes Cucumbers Bread and butter. SUPPER Boston baked beans Tomato catsup Sweetbread. SUNDAY BREAKFAST Cream of Wheat Bananas Fried mush and maple syrup Coffee. DINNER Roast chicken Creamed onions Mashed potatoes Pineapple sherbet Bread and butter. SUPPER Cold beef Apple sauce Sweet cake Bread and butter. Serving Each table is provided with meat platter, vegetable dishes, bread plate, butter dish, sugar bowl, milk pitcher, water pitcher, salt and pepper shakers, etc. The only need of a waiter is to bring the food to the tables and replenish the dishes. Each boy takes his turn at waiting. If there are seven boys in a tent, a boy serves one day in seven. He usually sits at the right side of the leader and eats his meal with the others. This does away with a second or "waiter" table. By this system you avoid the tendency to smartness and roughness. Each leader is careful to see that food is not wasted at his table, that decency and order is preserved, and wholesome conversation and pleasantries indulged in during the meal, as an aid to good digestion. Dishwashing Some camps pay for all work done and give boys more freedom, but experience has clearly proven that the successful camp is the one where boys all have responsibility and definite duties to perform. Dishwashing is never attractive. It may be made less irksome by carefully systematizing the work. There are several ways. One way is that of having each boy wash his own dishes, working a tent at a time. A number of tubs of hot, soapy water are provided for washing, and several extra tubs filled with very hot water for rinsing. At a signal from the Camp Director or person in charge, each table of boys by rotation passes from the dining room with the dishes to these tubs and each boy proceeds to do his own dishwashing and rinsing and drying. Another way is to provide two good-sized dish-pans for each table, and assign two boys to do the dish-washing for the day. The dishes are washed at the tables and stowed away in a closet, each table having its
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