pedestrianism. They have not come into use much as yet in America.

The second day is usually the most fatiguing. As before stated, you
suffer from loss of sleep (for few people can sleep much the first night
in camp), you ache from unaccustomed work, smart from sunburn, and
perhaps your stomach has gotten out of order. For these reasons, when
one can choose his time, it is well to start on Friday, and so have
Sunday come as a day of rest and healing; but this is not at all a
necessity. If you do not try to do too much the first few days, it is
likely that you will feel better on the third night than at any previous
time.

I have just said that your stomach is liable to become disordered. You
will be apt to have a great thirst and not much appetite the first and
second days, followed by costiveness, lame stomach, and a feeling of
weakness or exhaustion. As a preventive, eat laxative foods on those
days,--figs are especially good,--and try not to work too hard. You
should lay your plans so as not to have much to do nor far to go at
first. Do not dose with medicines, nor take alcoholic stimulants. Physic
and alcohol may give a temporary relief, but they will leave you in bad
condition. And here let me say that there is little or no need of
spirits in your party. You will find coffee or tea far better than
alcohol.

Avoid all nonsensical waste of strength, and gymnastic feats, before and
during the march; play no jokes upon your comrades, that will make their
day's work more burdensome. Young people are very apt to forget these
things.

Let each comrade finish his morning nap. A man cannot dispense with