cooking-utensils. Another time a similar party of twelve walked from
Centre Harbor, N.H., to Bethel, Me., in seventeen days, at a daily cost
of a dollar and two cents, reckoning as before. In both cases, "my right
there was none to dispute;" and by borrowing a horse the first time, and
selling at a loss of only five dollars the second, our expenses for the
horse were small.

[6] In one of my tours around the mountains, a lad of sixteen, in
attempting to hold up the horse's head as they were running down hill,
was hit by the horse's fore-leg, knocked down, and run over by both
wheels.




CHAPTER IV.

CLOTHING.


If your means allow it, have a suit especially for the summer tour, and
sufficiently in fashion to indicate that you are a traveller or camper.


SHIRTS.

Loose woollen shirts, of dark colors and with flowing collars, will
probably always be the proper thing. Avoid gaudiness and too much
trimming. Large pockets, one over each breast, are "handy;" but they
spoil the fit of the shirt, and are always wet from perspiration. I