TENT CLUBS 221 



The scale of your luxuries in tentage, fires, ice, 

 beer, wine, and cooking must depend on the wishes 

 of the members and the state of their pockets. 



Alone, I often used to go out with a couple of 

 blankets, and a saucepan, and do my own cooking. 

 In company I think you want greater comfort. 

 And the more of you there are the more comfort 

 you want. It is not unpleasant in a big meet to 

 sit over a fire with a good glass of port and talk over 

 the day with some man of another heat. Half the 

 joy of a Tent Club is the friendships you form with 

 men in other services than your own. 



A good roomy tent is of great value. 



On the question of expense I can tell you little. 

 This must depend so much on local circumstances. 

 One naturally wants to reduce expenditure. In 

 Meerut, where all the country is thirty miles or so 

 away, and where meets last for three and a half days, 

 you will be lucky if you can keep your expenses 

 down to ten or twelve rupees a day. This includes 

 messing, drink (a little), all hunting expenses, batta 

 or extra pay to syces and servants, charges for your 

 numerous first spears, and your own transport 

 expenses. 



