owed by costiveness, lame stomach, and a feeling of
weakness or exhaustion. As a preventive, eat laxative foods on those
days,--figs are especially good,--and try not to work too hard. You
should lay your plans so as not to have much to do nor far to go at
first. Do not dose with medicines, nor take alcoholic stimulants. Physic
and alcohol may give a temporary relief, but they will leave you in bad
condition. And here let me say that there is little or no need of
spirits in your party. You will find coffee or tea far better than
alcohol.

Avoid all nonsensical waste of strength, and gymnastic feats, before and
during the march; play no jokes upon your comrades, that will make their
day's work more burdensome. Young people are very apt to forget these
things.

Let each comrade finish his morning nap. A man cannot dispense with
sleep, and it is cruel to rob a friend of what is almost his life and
health. But, if any one of your party requires more sleep than the
others, he ought to contrive to "turn in" earlier, and so rise with the
company.

You have already been advised to take all the rest you can at the halts.
Unsling the knapsack, or take off your pack (unless you lie down upon
it), and make yourself as comfortable as you can. Avoid sitting in a
draught of air, or wherever it chills you.

If you feel on the second morning as if you could never reach your
journey's end, start off easily, and you will limber up after a while.

The great trouble with young people is, that they are ashamed to own
their fatigue, and will not do any thing that looks like a confession.
But these rules about resting, and "taking it easy," are the same in
principle as those by which a horse is driven on a long journey; and it
seems reasonable that young men should be favored as much as horses.

Try to be civil and gentlemanly to every one. You will find many who
wish to make money out of you, especially around the summer hotels and
boarding-houses. Avoid them if you can. Make your prices, where
possible, before you engage.

Do not be saucy to the farmers, nor treat them as "country greenhorns."
There is not a class of people in the country of more importance to you
in your travels; and you are in honor bound to be respectful to them.
Avoid stealing their apples, or disturbing any thing; and when you wish
to camp near a house, or on cultivated land, obtain permission from the
owner, and do not make any unreasonable request, such as ask