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it, find out where your hip-bone comes, and dig out a hollow 

 for it to fit into. Anyone who has slept upon a hard and 

 absolutely level surface will understand why this is recom- 

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Finally, as to clothing, I have ventured to recommend a list 

 of simple necessaries, more as a hint to those preparing for an 

 expedition than as a rule for their guidance. In his choice of 

 clothes, every man will to a certain extent follow his own fancy, 

 but there are some few things essential to health, and others 

 essential to success. For still hunting in timber I consider 

 moccasins, or at any rate tennis shoes, essential. For a tender- 

 footed man tennis shoes with thick red india-rubber soles are 

 the very best of foot-gear. Except that you cannot cling 

 with them as you can with the moccasin, they are nearly 

 as good as the latter, and certainly save your feet as you 

 come down hill, among sharp loose stones, in the dark ; 

 but they are hard to repair, and impossible to replace in the 

 woods. Flannel is the best thing to wear next to your skin, 

 and a good supply of dry flannels to put on when you come in 

 at night is of the utmost importance. A pair of ' rubber shoes ' 

 to slip on in camp is well worth carrying, so that if you are 

 obliged to go out in the snow or slush after you have made 

 yourself comfortable for the night, you need not wet your feet 

 again. Let your clothes be of some neutral tint ; my own 

 especial weakness is an Indian hunting-shirt made as plainly as 

 possible of tarmed deerskin. The colour of this is excellent ; 

 the material is very light and tough, and when you top a ridge 

 to which you have painfully climbed for half an hour, the bitter 

 wind which meets you does not go through a buckskin shirt as 

 easily as it does through tweed or homespun. In wet weather — 

 ie. in real drenching rain — such a shirt is not as good by any 

 means as tweed, as it then becomes exceedingly cold and un- 

 pleasant to wear. A broad belt of webbing (not of leather, for 

 leather cuts you) to contain your cartridges may be used over 

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