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��Popular Science Monthly
���This blanket protects the man, the horse and the vegetables
are not confined to camping. It is a
��A Blanket with Many Uses
WHAT is believed to be the most ingenious and practical camping blanket devised to date is the invention of J. L. Wright, of Revere. Mass. As a warm, rain-proof traveling-coat, or storm-cape, it cannot be equaled. It is long and fits snugly about the neck. Owing to its size and rectangular shape, it can be readily converted into a tent- covering. As a sleeping-bag, it is closed at the side and bottom. The uses of this handv accessorv
��better horse-cover than an ordinary blanket, since it has all the blanket's good points, but is not so heavv on
���Sleep in the open, warm and dry
���Two blankets make a shelter tent
��No chance for rain to enter
��the horse's back.
It does good service as a wagon- cover, fitting neatly over the sides and buckling at the corners.
Why Legs Are Called "Cork"
THE first artificial leg, other than the ordina- ry wooden pegs, is said to have been made in London by a man named Cork in the earh^ part of the nine- teenth century. Hence the name " Cork leg," no mat- ter what the material.
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