THE SUMMER AFIELD 



then you may know that you can walk, can tramp, 

 Ik and are in good shape for the summer. 



In your tramping-kit you need : a pocket-knife ; 

 some string ; a pair of field-glasses ; a botany-can or 

 .' fish-basket on your back; and perhaps a notebook. J 

 This is all and more than you need for every tramp. N 

 To these things might be added a light camera. It ^ \ 

 j depends upon what you go for. I have been afield \ 

 , all my life and have never owned or used a cam- ^. 

 era. But there are a good many things that I have < 

 never done. A camera may add a world of interest j 

 to your summer, so if you find use for a camera, y 

 don't fail to make one a part of your tramping outfit. . 



After all, what you carry on your back or on your 



? feet or in your hands does not matter half so much 



as what you carry in your head and heart your 



eye, and spirit, and purpose. For instance, when 



j$ you go into the fields have some purpose in your 



t going besides the indefinite desire to get out of 



doors. 



If you long for the wide sky and the wide winds < 

 and the wide slopes of green, then that is a real and a * 

 ; definite desire. You want to get out, OUT, OUT, be- 

 cause you have been shut in. Very good ; for you 

 will get what you wish, what you go out to get. 

 5 The point is this: always go out for something. 

 Never yawn and slouch out to the woods as you 

 s might to the corner grocery store, because you don't 

 V know how else to kill time. 





