dangerous.


SINKS.

In a permanent camp you must be careful to deposit all refuse from the
kitchen and table in a hole in the ground: otherwise your camp will be
infested with flies, and the air will become polluted. These sink-holes
may be small, and dug every day; or large, and partly filled every day
or oftener by throwing earth over the deposits. If you wish for health
and comfort, do not suffer a place to exist in your camp that will toll
flies to it. The sinks should be some distance from your tents, and a
dry spot of land is better than a wet one. Observe the same rule in
regard to all excrementitious and urinary matter. On the march you can
hardly do better than follow the Mosaic law (see Deuteronomy xxiii. 12,
13).

In permanent camp, or if you propose to stay anywhere more than three
days, the crumbs from the table and the kitchen refuse should be
carefully looked after: to this end it is well to avoid eating in the
tents where you live. Swarms of flies will be attracted by a very little
food.

A spade is better, all things considered, than a shovel, either in
permanent camp or on the march.


HOW TO KEEP WARM.

When a cold and wet spell of weather overtakes you, you will inquire,