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couches, etc., instead of which they find hunger, rain, 

 smoke, toil, gnats, mosquitoes, dirt, broken rest, vul- 

 gar guides, and salt pork ; and they are very apt not 

 to see where the fun comes in. But he who goes in 

 a right spirit will not be disappointed, and will find 

 the taste of this kind of life better, though bitterer, 

 than the writers have described. 



