blanket serviceable. This lining does not need to be quite as long nor
as wide as the blanket, since the ends and edges of the blanket are used
to tuck under the sleeper. One side of the lining should be sewed to the
blanket, and the other side and the ends buttoned; or you may leave off
the end buttons. You can thus dry it, when wet, better than if it were
sewed all around. You can lay what spare clothing you have, and your
day-clothes, between the lining and blanket, when the night is very
cold.

In almost any event, you will want to carry a spare shirt; and in cold
weather you can put this on, when you will find that a pound of shirt is
as warm as two pounds of overcoat.

If you take all I advise, you will not absolutely need an overcoat, and
can thus save carrying a number of pounds.

The tent question we will discuss elsewhere; but you can hardly do with
less than a piece of shelter-tent. If you have a larger kind, the man
who carries it must have some one to assist him in carrying his own
stuff, so that the burden may be equalized.

If you take tent-poles, they will vex you sorely, and tempt you to throw
them away: if you do not carry them, you will wonder when night comes
why you did not take them. If your tent is not large, so that you can
use light ash poles, I would at least start with them, unless the tent
is a "shelter," as poles for this can be easily cut.

You will have to carry a hatchet; and the kind known as the axe-pattern
hatchet is better than the shingling-hatchet for driving tent-pins. I
may as well caution you here not to try to drive tent-pins with the flat