aching shoulders. And in due time, if no
accident befalls, nor rainy weather detains us, we arrive at our
seashore or mountain.

You may like to know that this is almost an exact history, at least as
far as eating is concerned, of a twelve days' tramp I once went on in
company with two other boys. There was about five dollars in the party,
and nearly two dollars of this was spent in paying toll on a boat that
we took through a canal a part of the way. We carried coffee, sugar,
pork, and beef from home, and ate potatoes three times a day. We had a
delightful time, and came home fattened up somewhat; but I will admit
that I did not call for potatoes when I got back to my father's table,
for some days.

In general, however, it will be noticed that those who camp out for the
season, or go on walking-tours, do so at a moderate expense because
they start with the determination to make it cheap. For this purpose
they content themselves with old clothes, which they fit over or repair,
take cooking-utensils from their own kitchen, and, excepting in the
matter of canned foods, do not live very differently from what they do
at home.

Nearly all the parties of boys that I have questioned spend all the
money they have, be it little or much. Generally those I have met
walking or camping seem to be impressed with the magnitude of their
operations, and to be carrying constantly with them the determination to
spend their funds sparingly enough to reach home without begging. It is
not bad practice for a young man.

Here I wish to say a word to parents--having been a boy myself, and
being now a father. Let your boys go when summer comes; put them to
their wits; do not let them be extravagant, nor have money to pay other
men for working for them. It is far better for them to move about than
to remain in one place all the time. The last, especially if the camp is
near some place of public resort, tends to encourage idleness and
dissipation.

When you return home again from a tour of camping, and go back to a
sedentary life, remember that you do not need to eat all that your
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 com