Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III PERSONAL OUTFIT The personal outfit includes everything used by the individual alone and not in common with all the rest. It may be divided into: 1. Articles Carried on the Person. 2. Knapsacks and Bags and their Contents. 3. Sporting Articles. ARTICLES CARRIED ON THE PERSON Spring or Summer Trip Continual: Watch; compass; jackknife; waterproof matchbox; dope-can; salt-box; emergency lunch; plaster. Optional, recommended: Hunting-knife; ammonia; head-net; note-book and pencil; magnifying-glass; hooks and line. Occasional: Opera-glasses; liquor-flask; pistol or revolver; smoked glasses; camera (see Photography); camp-hatchet; money; pipe and tobacco; map. Although it is quite possible to get on in the woods without a timepiece of any kind except old Sol, most of us do not spend enough time in the forest to escape the feeling of being more or less lost without one. Nevertheless I strongly recommend trying the experiment, if for- the one reason that a watch represents, perhaps more than any other single article, our dependence upon artificial helps. Here is a golden opportunity to cast aside what is, if you come to think of it, a totallyunnecessary piece of baggage; for what difference does it make to you in the woods if you are a half- hour out of the way according to old tyrant Greenwich? You have no train to catch. Leave your ticker at home and note how quickly you will take to scanning the heavens with a new interest. Sundown and high noon will acquire a new significance and you are nearer to nature at once. -Before you start out make a note in your diary of the hours of sunset and sunrise in your section at that time of the year, and that will suffice. If you do take a watch let it be a cheap but reliable one, and let the chain b…
