THE SUMMER AFIELD 3 



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

 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. 

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

 To these things might be added a light camera. It 

 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 

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

 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 

 you go into the fields have some purpose in your 

 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. 

 The point is this: always go out for something. 

 Never yawn and slouch out to the woods as you 

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

 know how else to kill time. 



