every thing that interested you at the time, even to the songs you sing;
for usually some few songs run in your head all through the tour, and
it is pleasant to recall them in after-years.

Do not write so near the margins of the paper that the binder will cut
off the writing when he comes to trim them.




CHAPTER XII.

"HOW TO DO IT."


The following advice by Rev. Edward Everett Hale is so good that I have
appropriated it. You will find more good advice in the same book.[27]

"First, never walk before breakfast. If you like
you may make two breakfasts, and take a mile or
two between; but be sure to eat something before
you are on the road.

"Second, do not walk much in the middle of the
day. It is dusty and hot then; and the landscape
has lost its special glory. By ten o'clock you
ought to have found some camping-ground for the
day,--a nice brook running through a grove; a
place to draw, or paint, or tell stories, or read
them or write them; a place to make waterfalls and