iting contempt.

Avoid as much as possible asking another member of the party to do your
work, or to wait upon you: it is surprising how easily you can make
yourself disliked by asking a few trifling favors of one who is tired
and hungry.

MOSQUITOES, BLACK FLIES, AND MIDGE.

These pests will annoy you exceedingly almost everywhere in the summer.
In the daytime motion and perspiration keep them off to some extent. At
night, or when lying down, you can do no better than to cover yourself
so that they cannot reach your body, and have a mosquito-bar of some
sort over your head. The simplest thing is a square yard of
mosquito-netting thrown over the head, and tucked in well. You will need
to have your hat first thrown over the head, and your shirt-collar
turned up, to prevent the mosquitoes reaching through the mesh to your
face and neck.

A better way than this is to make a box-shaped mosquito-bar, large
enough to stretch across the head of the bed, and cover the heads and
shoulders of all that sleep in the tent. It should be six or eight feet
long, twenty to twenty-six inches wide, and one yard or more high. It
will be more durable, but not quite so well ventilated, if the top is
made of light cloth instead of netting. The seams should be bound with
stout tape, and the sides and ends "gathered" considerably in sewing
them to the top. Even then the side that falls over the shoulders of the
sleepers may not be loose enough to fill the hollows between them; the
netting will then have to be tucked under the blanket, or have something
thrown over its lower edge.

Sew loops or strings on the four upper corners, and corresponding loops
or strings on the tent, so that you can tie up the bar.

Bobbinet lace is better than the common netting for all of these
purposes. It comes in pieces twelve to fourteen yards long, and two
yards wide. You cannot often find it for sale; but the large shops in
the principal cities that do a great business by correspondence can send
it to you.

Oil of cedar and oil of pennyroyal are recommended as serviceable in
driving off mosquitoes, and there are patented compounds whose labels
pretend great things: you will try them only once, I think.

Ammoniated opodeldoc rubbed upon the bites will in a great measure stop
the itching, and hasten the cure.

They say that a little gunpowder flashed in the tent will drive out
flies and mosquitoes. I saw a man try it once, but noticed that he
himself