148 THE OPEN BOOK OF NATURE 
evening before we get home, so we must take some 
sandwiches, just to stay the pangs of hunger, but 
not to spoil our appetites for a good meal when we 
return. I am going to take my camera and plenty 
of plates, for I am sure there will be some interesting 
pictures to get—pictures which will be accurate 
records of a goodly number of our observations. 
Victor here will carry my big vasculum ; Howard 
will take a haversack. But we shall need some 
pill-boxes as well, and I will slip that little case of 
corked glass tubes into my breast-pocket. That 
geological hammer is a fair weight, but we must 
take it. See, I have a loop on the back of my waist- 
coat, into which I slip the handle. There, it rests 
quite comfortably, and is hidden from view by 
my coat. Now I think we are ready. 
Perhaps some people think that such an equip- 
ment for the field must be a terrible burden, and 
they may say that, if Nature-study means carrying 
so much apparatus about on their rambles, they 
are not going to be bothered with it. That is the 
kind of people who need carrying everywhere they 
go. If they have to take a journey of a couple of 
hundred yards, they must be hauled. in a street-car 
or a motor. Needless to say, they will never be 
naturalists ; they are not built that way. Then, 
the naturalist sets out to take records, not to break 
them. He does not walk for a wager ; he is never in 
a hurry, never impatient ; and as for the load, that 
is carried by his enthusiasm. Your naturalist is 
a self-reliant, independent, and manly mortal; you 
find him out in all weathers, facing sunshine or 
storm; you see him drenched to the skin, yet 
