do not expect any one to think it is. We frequently meet parties of
young folks walking through the mountains, who do great things with
their tongues, but not much with their feet. If you will refrain from
bragging, you can speak of your short marches without exciting contempt.

Avoid as much as possible asking another member of the party to do your
work, or to wait upon you: it is surprising how easily you can make
yourself disliked by asking a few trifling favors of one who is tired
and hungry.


MOSQUITOES, BLACK FLIES, AND MIDGE.

These pests will annoy you exceedingly almost everywhere in the summer.
In the daytime motion and perspiration keep them off to some extent. At
night, or when lying down, you can do no better than to cover yourself
so that they cannot reach your body, and have a mosquito-bar of some
sort over your head. The simplest thing is a square yard of
mosquito-netting thrown over the head, and tucked in well. You will need
to have your hat first thrown over the head, and your shirt-collar
turned up, to prevent the mosquitoes reaching through the mesh to your
face and neck.

A better way than this is to make a box-shaped mosquito-bar, large
enough to stretch across the head of the bed, and cover the heads and
shoulders of all that sleep in the tent. It should be six or eight feet
long, twenty to twenty-six inches wide, and one yard or more high. It
will be more durable, but not quite so well ventilated, if the top is
made of light cloth instead of netting. The seams should be bound with
stout tape, and the sides and ends "gathered" considerably in sewing