Children's Sleeping Bags
Grobag Jelly Bean Baby Sleeping Bag
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Camping Tips
A haversack is almost indispensable in all pedestrian tours. Even if you have your
baggage in a wagon, it is best to wear one, or some
sort of a small bag furnished with shoulder-
straps, so that you can carry a lunch, writing-
materials, guide-book, and such other small articles as you constantly need. You can buy a
haversack at the stores where sportsmen's ou
fits are sold ; or you can make one of enamel
cloth or rubber drilling, say eleven inches deep
by nine wide, with a strap of the same material neatly doubled and sewed together, forty
to forty-five inches long, and one and three-
quarters inches wide. Cut the back piece about
nineteen inches long, so as to allow for a flap
eight inches long to fold over the top and down
the front. Sew the strap on the upper corners
of the back piece, having first sewed a facing
inside, to prevent its tearing out the back.
WOOL BLANKET
Next in the order of necessities is a woollen blanket, — a good stout one, rather than the light or flimsy one that you may think of
tak- ing. In almost all of the Northern States the summer nights are apt to be chilly ; while in the mountainous regions, and at the seaside, they are often fairly cold. A lining of cotton
drilling will perhaps make a thin blanket serviceable. This lining does not need to be quite as long nor as wide as the blanket, since the ends and edges of the blanket are used to tuck under the sleeper. One side of the lining should be sewed to the blanket, and the other side and the ends buttoned ; or you may leave off the end
buttons. You can thus dry it, when wet, better than if it were sewed all around. You can lay
what spare clothing you have, and your dayclothes, between the lining and blanket, when the night is very cold.
In almost any event, you will want to carry a spare shirt ; and in cold weather you can put this on, when you will find that a pound of shirt is as warm as two pounds of overcoat.
If you take all I advise, you will not absolutely need an overcoat, and can thus save
carrying a number of pounds.
The tent question we will discuss elsewhere ; but you can hardly do with less than a piece of shelter-tent. If you have a larger kind, the man who carries it must have some one to assist him in carrying his own stuff, so that the burden may be equalized.
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