is put into a
thick comforter. Such a mattress is a fine thing to carry in a wagon
when you are on the march; but you can make a softer bed than this if
you are in a permanent camp.

SLEEPING.

"Turn in" early, so as to be up with the sun. You may be tempted to
sleep in your clothes; but if you wish to know what luxury is, take them
off as you do at home, and sleep in a sheet, having first taken a bath,
or at least washed the feet and limbs. Not many care to do this,
particularly if the evening air is chilly; but it is a comfort of no
mean order.

If you are short of bedclothes, as when on the march, you can place over
you the clothes you take off (see p. 19); but in that case it is still
more necessary to have a good bed underneath.

You will always do well to cover the clothes you have taken off, or they
will be quite damp in the morning.

See that you have plenty of air to breathe. It is not best to have a
draught of air sweeping through the tent, but let a plenty of it come in
at the feet of the sleeper or top of the tent.

A hammock is a good thing to have in a permanent camp, but do not try to
swing it between two tent-poles: it needs a firmer support.

Stretch a clothes-line somewhere on your camp-ground, where neither you
nor your visitors will run into it in the dark.

If your camp is where many visitors will come by carriage, you will find
that it will pay you for your trouble to provide a hitching-post where
the horses can stand safely. Fastening to guy-lines and tent-poles is
dangerous.

SINKS.

In a permanent camp you must be careful to deposit all refuse from the
kitchen and table in a hole in the ground: otherwise your camp will be
infested with flies, and the air will become polluted. These sink-holes
may be small, and dug every day; or large, and partly filled every day
or oftener by throwing earth over the deposits. If you wish for health
and comfort, do not suffer a place to exist in your camp that will toll
flies to it. The sinks should be some distance from your tents, and a
dry spot of land is better than a wet one. Observe the same rule in
regard to all excrementitious and urinary matter. On the march you can
hardly do better than follow the Mosaic law (see Deuteronomy xxiii. 12,
13).

In permanent camp, or if you propose to stay anywhere more than three
days, the crumbs from the table and the kitchen refuse should be
carefully looked after: to this end it is well to avoid eatin