In places where you can get the use of a wood for your camp, it saves
the cost of a tent if you can make yourself a hut.
The important point in making a hut is to thatch it so closely and
well with heather, straw, or twigs of fir, etc., that it is
watertight.
The double lean-to, already described, makes the simplest form of
hut--and if you like to make it more roomy, you can dig out the floor
a couple of feet. But this is always a messy proceeding, and
unhealthy, as upturned earth is very liable to give fever.
In addition to the articles of camp equipment which are mentioned in
_Scouting for Boys_ as being easily made by the Scout himself,
there are several others which can be made during the long winter
evenings, and these will be of great use to you when you go into camp
in the summer, or they can be sold to other fellows wanting such
things.