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 the 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 
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when it was time to get up— it 1s more 
efficacious than any alarm clock—but 
somehow he never seemed to enjoy it 
when I did it to him. 
For riding, it is better to carry your 
