Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 149
CAMP nEDDING. Stakes can be cut at the camping-place. Forstrength the stitching should be in severalrows, else it will tear out if a sudden weight isthrown on it. When making a cot of boughs the most sat-isfactory and comfortable affair is the basket-woven or lattice mattress of small pliable… … FIG. 7. A HOUSE-TENT — OPEN. end of another, so as to distribute the strongerparts of the wood evenly all over the lattice. This arrangement applies also to the shorteror cross-pieces, and when finished the mattressis laid on a pair of poles supported with crotchedsticks, as shown in Fig. 6, but…
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