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THE WALKING PARTY 



« w^e gather as we travel 



Bits of moss and dirty gravel, 

 And we chip off little specimens of stone, 



And we carry home as prizes 



Sundry bugs of handy sizes, — 

 Just to give the day a scientific tone." 



Who knows not the joys of a walking party has 

 not yet exhausted the possibilities of college life. 

 In organizing such a party the less organization 

 the better. The essential elements are, first, people 

 of the right kind — our kind, let us say — not too 

 many, at most a dozen. Let there be both men and 

 women. It is not necessary that there should always 

 be "six of one and half a dozen of the other," 

 for "definite tendencies" should be discouraged. 

 Second, a region worth walking for: gorges, water- 

 falls, glens, brooks, hills, a lake perhaps, and above 

 all fences of wire, of stone, of rails, of boards and of 

 stumps. Third, a large tin cofifee-pail, well black- 

 ened without, but shiny within. You may recognize 

 the true "picnicker" by his zeal to carry this pail 

 across the college campus. Many a gilded youth 

 was tried by this great test on his first trip with 

 our walking party. If found wanting, he lost caste 

 and was not asked again. 



Other necessities may appeal to other parties, 

 but these three were our essentials. The dozen 



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