A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
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_Two cups and saucers of white enamel ware_. They always look clean and do not break. _One silver-plated knife and fork and two teaspoons_. _One folding camp chair_. N.B.--Provide your husband or brother or sister precisely the same; no more, no less. _Japanese napkins_, enough to provide two a day for the party. _Two white enamel vegetable dishes_. _One folding camp table_. _One candle lamp, with enough candles_. Then leave all the rest of the cooking outfit to your cook and trust in Providence. (If you do not approve of Providence, a full aluminum cooking outfit can be bought so that one pot or pan nests in the other, the whole very complete, compact and light.) Come what may, you have your own particular clean hot plate, cup and saucer, knife, fork, spoon and napkin, with a table to eat from and a chair to sit on and a lamp to see by, if you are eating after dark--which often happens--and nothing else matters, but food. If you want to be canny you will have somewhere in your own pack a modest supply of condensed soups and vegetables, a box or two of meat crackers, |
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