ampaign on a tooth-brush."

As a matter of fact, I have a sneaking admiration for the man who dares
to borrow. His really is the part of wisdom. But at times he may lose
himself in places where he can neither a borrower nor a lender be, and
there are men so tenderly constituted that they cannot keep another man
hungry while they use his coffee-pot. So it is well to take a few things
with you--if only to lend them to the men who travel "light."

On hunting and campaigning trips the climate, the means of transport, and
the chance along the road of obtaining food and fodder vary so greatly
that it is not possible to map out an outfit which would serve equally
well for each of them. What on one journey was your most precious
possession on the next is a useless nuisance. On two trips I have packed
a tent weighing, with the stakes, fifty pounds, which, as we slept in
huts, I never once had occasion to open; while on other trips in
countries that promised to be more or less settled, I had to always live
under canvas, and sometimes broke camp twice a day.

In one war, in which I worked for an English paper, we travelled like
major-generals. When that war started few thought it would last over six
weeks, and many of the officers regarded it in the light of a picnic. In
consequence, they mobilized as they never would have done had they
foreseen what was to come, and the mess contractor grew rich furnishing,
not only champagne, which in campaigns in fever countries has saved the
life of many a good man, but cases of even port and burgundy, which never
greatly helped any one. Later these mess supplies were turned over to
the field-hospitals, but at the start every one travelled with more than
he needed and more than the regulations allowed, and each correspondent
was advised that if he represented a first-class paper and wished to
"save his face" he had better travel in state. Those who did not, found
the staff and censor less easy of access, and the means of obtaining
information more difficult. But it was a nuisance. If, when a man
halted at your tent, you could not stand him whiskey and sparklet soda,
Egyptian cigarettes, compressed soup, canned meats, and marmalade, your
paper was suspected of trying to do it "on the cheap," and not only of
being mean, but, as this was a popular war, unpatriotic. When the army
stripped down to work all this was discontinued, but at the start I
believe there were carried with that c