the body.

Drive carefully and slowly over bad places. It makes a great deal of
difference whether a wheel strikes a rock with the horse going at a
trot, or at a walk.


HARNESS.

If your load is heavy, and the roads very hard, or the daily distance
long, you had better have a collar for the horse: otherwise a
breastplate-harness will do. In your kit of tools it is well to have a
few straps, an awl, and waxed ends, against the time that something
breaks. Oil the harness before you start, and carry about a pint of
neat's-foot oil, which you can also use upon the men's boots. At night
look out that the harness and all of your baggage are sheltered from dew
and rain, rats and mice.


ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THIS MODE OF TRAVEL.

This way of travelling is peculiarly adapted to a party of different
ages, rather than for one exclusively of young men. It is especially
suitable where there are ladies who wish to walk and camp, or for an
entire family, or for a school with its teachers. The necessity of a
head to a party will hardly be recognized by young men; and, even if it
is, they are still unwilling, as a general rule, to submit to
unaccustomed restraint.

The way out of this difficulty is for one man to invite his comrades to