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:100 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTflap isthrown backward over the roof when a campfireis going. A long pole on each side of the tent,run diagonally upward from rear to front, will liftthe awning high enough to be out of the way. However,I prefer to have the door-flap separate, and sofitted with grommets or eyelets that it can be attachedeither to the top or to one side of the tent, aspreferred. In warm weather, when no all-night fireis needed, it may be hung from the top as an awning,and the tent may be closed up by it when the occupantsare away; but on nights when a fire is keptgoing the flap should be stretched forward verticallyfrom the windward side of the tent front, so as toFig. 63.— Camp-fire Tentcheck the draught from that direction, and the fireshould be built close to the tent, the front of whichisleft wide open.A fall of snow on the roof of an ordinary bakertent may cause trouble, unless an outside frameworkhas been built and thatched with browse. Thecamp-fire tent (Fig. 63) has a steeper roof, whichsheds rain and snow much better, and it affords morehead-room without increased weight. This is thebest pattern of baker tent. Sizes and weights ofsome examples are as follows, the dimensions beingwidth, depth, height of front, center, and back, inturn