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ular outfit consisted of a wagon and team driven 

 by one man who cooked, together with another 

 man and four riding ponies, two of which we rode, 

 while the other two were either driven loose or led 

 behind the wagon. While it is eminently desira- 

 ble that a hunter should be able to rough it, and 

 should be entirely willing to put up with the bare 

 minimum of necessities, and to undergo great 

 fatigue and hardship, it is yet not at all necessary 

 that he should refrain from comfort of a whole- 

 some sort when it is obtainable. By taking the 

 wagon we could carry a tent to put up if there 

 was foul weather. I had a change of clothes to 

 put on if I was wet, two or three books to read 

 and nothing adds more to the enjoyment of a 

 hunting trip as well as plenty of food ; while 

 having two men made me entirely foot-loose as 

 regards camp, so that I could hunt whenever I 

 pleased, and, if I came in tired, I simply rested, 

 instead of spending two or three hours in pitch- 

 ing camp, cooking, tethering horses, and doing 

 the innumerable other little things which in the 

 aggregate amount to so much. 



On such a trip, when we got into unknown 

 country it was of course very necessary to stay 

 near the wagon, especially if we had to hunt for 

 water. But if we knew the country at all, we 

 would decide in the morning about where the 

 camp was to be made in the afternoon, and then 



