ILLUSTRATIONS


Over-night camp                                              _Frontispiece_

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One can generally pass around obstructions like this on the trail         5

Difficulties of the Adirondack trail                                      9

Blazing the trail by bending down and breaking branches                  11

Returning to camp by the blazed trail                                    13

Footprints of animals                                                   17

Footprints of animals                                                   19

Ink impressions of leaves                                                23

Ink impressions of leaves                                                24

Ink impressions of leaves                                                25

Pitch-pine and cone                                                      26

Sycamore leaf and fruit of sycamore                                      26

How to use the axe                                                       29

The compass and the North Star                                           37

A permanent camp                                                         49

Outdoor shelters                                                         51

Dining-tent, handy racks, and log bedstead                               53

A forest camp by the water                                               55

In camp                                                                  57

The bough-bed, the cook-fire, and the wall-tent                          59

Soft wood                                                                63

Hard wood                                                                65

Bringing wood for the fire                                               69

Camp fires and camp sanitation                                           81

Trailers' outfits                                                        87

The head-net and blanket-roll                                            91

Some things to carry and how to carry them                              101

Handicraft in the woods                                                 107

Outdoor dressing-table, camp-cupboard, hammock-frame, seat,
  and pot-hook                                                          109

Camp-chair, biscuit-stick, and blanket camp-bed                         111

The birch-bark dish that will hold fluids. Details of making            115

A bear would rather be your friend than your enemy                      118

Making friends with a ruffed grouse                                     120

Found on the trail                                                      122

Timber wolves                                                           124

Baby moose                                                              126

Stalking wild birds                                                     128

The fish-hawk will sometimes build near the ground                      131

Antelopes of the western plains                                         135

Good food on the trail                                                  143

Fruits found principally in the south and the middle west               147

Fruits found principally in the north and the middle west               151

Fruits common to most of the States                                     155

Hickory nuts, sweet and bitter                                          159

Nuts with soft shells. Beechnut and chestnut                            161

Poisonous and non-poisonous snakes                                      173