appetite calls for. You may make yourself sick if you go on eating such
meals as you have been digesting in camp. You are apt also upon your
return to feel as you did on the first and second days of your tour;
this is especially liable to be the case if you have overworked
yourself, or have not had enough sleep.

FOOTNOTES:

[23] A flannel dress, the skirt coming to the top of the boots, and
having a blouse waist, will be found most comfortable.

[24] It is no novelty for women and children to camp out: we see them
every summer at the seaside and on the blueberry-plains. A great many
families besides live in rude cabins, which are preferable on many
accounts, but are expensive. Sickness sometimes results, but usually all
are much benefited. I know a family that numbered with its guests nine
ladies, five children ("one at the breast"), and the _paterfamilias_,
which camped several weeks through some of the best and some of the
worst of weather. The whooping-cough broke out the second or third day;
shortly after, the tent of the mother and children blew down in the
night, and turned them all out into the pelting rain in their
night-clothes. Excepting the misery of that night and day, nothing
serious came of it; and in the fall all returned home better every way
for having spent their summer in camp.

[25] The mesh of a net is measured by pulling it diagonally as far as
possible, and finding the distance from knot to knot; consequently a
three-inch mesh will open so as to make a square of about an inch and a
half.