those young men were candidates for the penitentiary. If you cannot
travel honorably, and without begging, I should advise you to stay at
home.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] A German officer tells me that his comrades in the Franco-Prussian
war of 1870-1 had no rubber blankets; nor had they any shelter-tents
such as our Union soldiers used in 1861-5 as a make-shift when their
rubbers were lost. But this is nothing to you: German discipline
compelled the soldiers to carry a big cloak which sheds water quite
well, and is useful to a soldier for other purposes: but the weight and
bulk condemn it for pleasure-seekers.

[3] In general it is better to put the shelter-tent in the roll, and to
keep out the rubber blanket, for you may need the last before you camp.
You can roll the rubber blanket tightly around the other roll (the cloth
side out, as the rubber side is too slippery), and thus be able to take
it off readily without disturbing the other things. You can also roll
the rubber blanket separately, and link it to the large roll after the
manner of two links of a chain.

[4] I knew an officer in the army, who carried a rubber air-pillow
through thick and thin, esteeming it, after his life and his rations,
the greatest necessity of his existence. Another officer, when
transportation was cut down, held to his camp-chair. Almost every one
has his whim.