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share evenly, one man may act as treasurer 

 and you can have a weekly or nightly 

 settlement. 



Don't be separated from your tooth- 

 brush and overcoat. Keep them with 

 you, as you do your watch and money. 

 A company of four, myself one, wishing 

 to make the ascent of Mount Washington 

 by way of Tuckerman's Ravine, resolved 

 to send our satchels to the summit in the 

 stage that climbed up daily by the wagon 

 road. On reaching the hotel at the top 

 we found that the stage-driver had for- 

 gotten to leave them, and had taken them 

 to the foot of the mountain again. After 

 much telephoning it was understood that 

 they were to be sent, express, to the Willey 

 House. Next day we descended, by the 

 bridle-path, to that inn, and found that 

 they had not been left. More telephoning, 

 telegraphing, consultations with agents ; 

 finally, they were traced to the Crawford 

 House. We returned in our tracks and 

 recovered them. As my own pack weighed 

 but four or five pounds, it was absurd to 

 have it carried in a wagon. Express com- 







