Camping Out.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 19

Camping Out.

I ÜBed to wonder, with the majority of men. how it was thi.t a woman could keep herself o -cupied wirh only on • homo to look vi ter_ Yet it took us, two ' loids of creation,' all our time to keep our oue small tent respectable. And wo didn r make th^ b ds or do any washing-up. We made the beds the fit -t day, uid true, but the operation did not by any means improvu their appearance, and we did not repeat it. We alno washed up on the first <] \y t but as it was lees inconvenient to leave the wet sugar in the bo'toni of the cups than to have it smeared all over them, we therefore aiscontmued that also, as a useless and unprjiitable labor. On two or three days we essayed the luxury of chops for breakfast, but they seemed to ba different, somehow, from the chop"! we used to have at home. We put them over the fire while we went down to the beach for a swim. When we came back and extinguished them we fou;id that they presented the color and appearance of a clinker, and had shrivolkd to the size of a Hick Stewart I-daud oyster. The bull-terrier turned up his lordly nose at them in quite a superior way, and walked off as if his feedings had been greviously outraged by our well-meant attempts to make use of him as a / orpin ct'tt lor our experiments in the art and craft of housewifery. Aud the moral of it all is this the be«t way to camp out is to sleep at home, and to eat your ' wittles' where you are accustomed to eat them.