200 CLOTHS BAG AND LACE-UPS. 
cup to boil coffee, make tea in, and drink from ; 
the pail to dip water, and keep near the camp- 
fire ready for any purpose. A pail is also very 
useful to give your animals a drink, when the 
water is inaccessible to them from mire or 
rocky canons. 
Spare cloths should be carried in a round 
waterproof bag, made of strong canvas, painted 
(such as sailors use), in which notebooks and 
writing gear can be also stowed away. 
For clothing I give the preference to good 
Scotch tweed, as a material better suited to 
stand wear-and-tear, and supply warmth without 
weight, than any fabric I have ever tried. Fur 
I abominate, as having no quality that is not 
immeasurably improved in a woollen fabric. 
Leather for jacket or trousers avoid as you 
would a rattle-snake, if you can by any possi- 
bility obtain other material. It shrinks when 
wet, shrinks when dry, feels cold at all times, 
and requires a week to dry if thoroughly soaked 
——a process that contracts the sleeves, if a 
jacket, from the wrist to the elbow, and trousers 
to knee-breeches. 
Strong ‘lace-up’ boots, if you are provident 
enough to bring out a stock, are far and away the 
best foot-armature. Mocassins are only to be 
