through it. When you come to try this method, you
will appreciate its handiness. Besides the rifle, you
will carry also your rope, camera, and a sweater or
waistcoat for changes in temperature. In your saddle
bags are pipe and tobacco, perhaps a chunk of bread,
your note-book, and the map--if there is any. Thus
your saddle-horse is outfitted. Do not forget your
collapsible rubber cup. About your waist you will wear
your cartridge-belt with six-shooter and sheath-knife.
I use a forty-five caliber belt. By threading a buck
skin thong in and out through some of the cartridge
loops, their size is sufficiently reduced to hold also the
30-40 rifle cartridges. Thus I carry ammunition for
both revolver and rifle in the one belt. The belt
should not be buckled tight about your waist, but
should hang well down on the hip. This is for two
reasons. In the first place, it does not drag so heavily
at your anatomy, and falls naturally into position when
you are mounted. In the second place, you can jerk
your gun out more easily from a loose-hanging holster.
Let your knife-sheath be so deep as almost to
cover the handle, and the knife of the very best steel
procurable. I like a thin blade. If you are a student
of animal anatomy, you can skin and quarter a deer
with nothing heavier than a pocket-knife.

When you come to saddle the pack-horses, you
must exercise even greater care in getting the saddle-
blankets smooth and the saddle in place. There is
some give and take to a rider; but a pack carries