he dissolving point a third
as much rice.

These latter two dishes taste entirely unlike each other or their
separate ingredients. They are moreover great in nutrition.

ITEM--Boiled rice and raisins.

ITEM--Dish number three with raisins.

ITEM--Rice boiled with raisins, sugar sprinkled on top, and then baked.

ITEM--Ditto with dish number three.

All these are good--and different.

Some people like to cook and have a natural knack for it. Others hate
it. If you are one of the former, select a propitious moment to
suggest that you will cook, if the rest will wash the dishes and supply
the wood and water. Thus you will get first crack at the fire in the
chill of morning; and at night you can squat on your heels doing light
labor while the others rustle.

In a mountain trip small stout bags for the provisions are necessary.
They should be big enough to contain, say, five pounds of corn-meal,
and should tie firmly at the top. It will be absolutely labor lost for
you to mark them on the outside, as the outside soon will become
uniform in color with your marking. Tags might do, if occasionally
renewed. But if you have the instinct, you will soon come to recognize
the appearance of the different bags as you recognize the features of
your family. They should contain small quantities for immediate use of
the provisions the main stock of which is carried on another
pack-animal. One tin plate apiece and "one to grow on"; the same of tin
cups; half a dozen spoons; four knives and forks; a big spoon; two
frying-pans; a broiler; a coffee-pot; a Dutch oven; and three light
sheet-iron pails to nest in one another was what we carried on this
trip. You see, we had horses. Of course in the woods that outfit
would be materially reduced.

For the same reason, since we had our carrying done for us, we took
along two flat iron bars about twenty-four inches in length. These,
laid across two stones between which the fire had been built, we used
to support our cooking-utensils stove-wise. I should never carry a
stove. This arrangement is quite as effective, and possesses the added
advantage that wood does not have to be cut for it of any definite
length. Again, in the woods these iron bars would be a senseless
burden. But early you will learn that while it is foolish to carry a
single ounce more than will pay in comfort or convenience for its own
transportation, it is equally foolish to refuse the comforts or
convenie