dams, to sail chips, or build boats; a place to
make a fire and a cup of tea for the oldsters.
Stay here till four in the afternoon, and then
push on in the two or three hours which are left
to the sleeping-place agreed upon. Four or five
hours on the road is all you want in each day.
Even resolute idlers, as it is to be hoped you all
are on such occasions, can get eight miles a day
out of that; and that is enough for a true
walking-party. Remember all along that you are not
running a race with the railway-train. If you
were, you would be beaten certainly; and the less
you think you are, the better. You are travelling
in a method of which the merit is that it is not
fast, and that you see every separate detail of
the glory of the world. What a fool you are, then,
if you tire yourself to death, merely that you may
say that you did in ten hours what the locomotive
would gladly have finished in one, if by that
effort you have lost exactly the enjoyment of
nature and society that you started for!"

The advice to rest in the heat of the day is good for very hot weather;
young people, however, are too impatient to follow it unless there is an
apparent necessity. The feeling at twelve o'clock that you have yet to
walk as far as you have come is not so pleasant as that of knowing you
have all the afternoon for rest. For this reason nearly every one will
finish the walk as soon as possible; still Mr. Hale's plan is a good
one--the best for very hot weather.