it is easily figured out that the man, who walks ten 

 miles will lift a heavy boot about twenty-thousand 

 times, which is about equivalent, as your mathematical 

 friend can easily demonstrate, to carrying a ton of coal 

 up four flights of stairs and it produces exactly the 

 same effect. You feel in the evening that you have 

 done a hard day 's work, and you have. I used to work 

 at this boot-lifting work, when I first went camping. 

 Besides being heavy, these boots are also very hot. 



After some years of experience I have adopted a very 

 different plan. AVhen a pair of ordinary high shoes 

 gets too old and worn to serve any longer for street and 

 office wear in the city, I have them half-soled and the 

 heels straightened; and the shoemaker is instructed to 

 put a few small hobnails into the soles and the heels. 

 If necessary the uppers are also repaired, so no sand or 

 sticks can get into them. For a month's camping I have 

 about three pairs fixed up in this way. One pair, in 

 that case, is provided with rubber heels and, of course, 

 has no burs on the heels. These old shoes serve the 

 purpose excellently. They are comfortable, light and 

 cool. If you come to a stream or a marsh, you wade 

 through it and get wet, but in camp you put on dry 

 socks and shoes and let the wet shoes dry. This is a 

 much better plan than to walk about in high heavy 

 boots, which are not water proof anyhow, for the only 

 really waterproof footwear is rubber, which is unbear- 

 ably hot in summer. 



Low shoes of any kind are well enough in camp, but 

 are worthless on the trail, because sticks and sand will 

 get into them. The best shoes for a woman to wear are 

 light weight calf skin walking shoes with laces, button 



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