side of the axe or hatchet, for it generally ends in breaking the
handle,--quite an accident when away from home.

For cooking-utensils on a trip like that we are now proposing, you will
do well to content yourself with a frying-pan, coffee-pot, and perhaps a
tin pail; you can do wonders at cooking with these.

We will consider the matter of cooking and food elsewhere; but the main
thing now is to know beforehand where you are going, and to learn if
there are houses and shops on the route. Of course you must have food;
but, if you have to carry three or four days' rations in your haversack,
I fear that many of my young friends will fail to see the pleasure of
their trip. Yet carry them if you must: do not risk starvation,
whatever you do. Also remember to always have something in your
haversack, no matter how easy it is to buy what you want.

I have now enumerated the principal articles of weight that a party must
take on a walking-tour when they camp out, and cook as they go. If the
trip is made early or late in the season, you must take more clothing.
If you are gunning, your gun, &c., add still more weight. Every one will
carry towel, soap, comb, and toothbrush.

Then there is a match-safe (which should be air-tight, or the matches
will soon spoil), a box of salve, the knives, fork, spoon, dipper,
portfolio, paper, Testament, &c. Every man also has something in
particular that "he wouldn't be without for any thing."[4]

There should also be in every party a clothes brush, mosquito-netting,
strings, compass, song-book, guide-book, and maps, which should be
company property.