Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...sake of an argument. This style of conversation soon becomes tiresome, and in time breeds dislike. Don't get mad and quarrel with your friends, even though the weather be disagreeable or the trail bad. Keep your temper. Everybody hates a kicker, while a kind word and a smile will often drive away an impending storm. Don't borrow too much. Everyone gets tired of a man who borrows everything. Carry as many of the little tricks with you as possible. Carry a full toilet-case, with soap, towel, hairbrush, comb, needles, thread, buttons, safetypins, and all. Carry a full cleaning outfit for your gun and a full line of fishing-tackle. These things cost but little, weigh but a trifle, and it is, or should be, much pleasanter to use your own than to borrow. Don't neglect your personal appearance simply because you are in the woods. Be just as cleanly in your habits as if at home. Keep your hands and face clean, unless you have to keep them painted as a protection against mosquitoes. I once started on a long hunting-trip with a man, and after we had gone a few miles I asked him if he had remembered to bring his soap, towels, tooth-brush, etc. He said, "No, I never care a d--n for those things when I'm in camp." I devoutly hoped he would get drowned before we went far, but, alas! he did not. He lived through it, and looked and smelled worse than a nigger when we got home. Don't wear soiled underclothes. Wash them, or have them washed, as often as you would at home. Don't get up in the morning and commence cooking breakfast without first washing your hands and face. Don't tramp on your friends' bedding with your muddy boots. Don't smoke or spit in the tent, if such things are distasteful to any one of your companions. Don't speak unkindly of any member of the...