sible, make it the first thing you do 

 when you make camp, while the cook 

 is getting supper. Then, as you eat 

 supper and sit near the camp fire to 

 keep warm, you have the sweet con- 

 sciousness that over there in the black- 

 ness is a snug little nest all ready to 

 receive your tired self. And if some 

 morning you want to see what you have 

 escaped, just unscrew the air valve to 

 your bed before you rise, and when you 

 come down on th£ hard, bumpy ground, 

 in less time than it takes to tell, you 

 will agree with me that there is nothing 

 so rare as resting on air. Nimrod used 

 to play this trick on me occasionally 

 when it was time to get up — it is more 

 efficacious than any alarm clock — but 

 somehow he never seemed to enjoy it 

 when I did it to him. 



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