The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28, by Various docx

[...]... of it in their wholesale list It is just like the pot in which painters carry their paint, except that it has an ordinary saucepan lid You should have a “nest” of these— that is, three in diminishing sizes going one inside the other The big lid then fits on the outer one and the two other lids have to be carried separately The Five-Foot Sausage You hang these camp-kettles over the fire by their bucket... tie the tops of three sticks together and make a tripod Then from the place where they join you dangle a piece of string, pass it through the handle of the kettle and tie it to itself, in a knot that can be adjusted up or down to raise or lower the kettle from the fire This knot is our old friend the two halfhitches Pass the loose end round the down cord, letting it come back under the up cord, then... with contempt or opposition the views of other specialists who differ from him But all work that is worth doing is attended by its own peculiar dangers It is here that the work of the non- specialist comes in It is for him to compare the opposing views of the specialists, to reveal one in the light thrown by the other, to help into existence the new truth waiting to be born of the meeting of opposites... bucket handles, from the tripod or other means of getting over the fire Sometimes the bough of a tree high out of the reach of the flames will do Sometimes a stick or oar thrust into the bank or in a crevice of the wall behind the fire is more convenient than a tripod Again, you can do without any hanging at all, making a little fireplace of bricks or stones and standing the saucepans “on the hob.” It is... cord, then round again with the same finish, and lo! the up cord makes two half-hitches round the down cord You can slip, them up and put them where you like and they will hold, but you have to undo them to take the kettle clean away from the fire So we add to our equipment a few pot-hooks or pieces of steel wire shaped like an S Their use will be obvious If we have three of them it is quite easy to keep... one another in the same accommodating way as the eating dishes Gertrude was nearly put off this device altogether by Basil's remark that he had only seen them in use in poulterers' shops, where they are put under hares' noses “Basil, you, you monster,” cried Gertrude, and I had to push those tin mugs as though I had been a traveller interested in the sale of them The drinking of hot tea out of these... and will see a great deal of country in the course of a fortnight The sausage on the bicycle shown in the illustration may be taken to contain all the gear and a little food The rucksacks will take the rest and each man's most precious personal belongings There is a small parcel tied to the handle-bar, scarcely to be seen because it is smaller than the end of the sausage It is a complete tent tied up... goes the knapsack is now obsolete It may be, however, that it lingers here and there If you see one, buy it for a museum if you like but not for use The bundle should be allowed to fit itself to the back, as it does in a canvas bag Suppose now that you fix the V point of a pair of braces somewhere near the top of the sack and bringing the webs over your shoulders, fix them, nicely adjusted, to the lower... spode Smaller mugs of the same shape do for egg-cups, and the egg-spoons I take to camp are the bone ones, seldom asked for but easy to get in most oil-and-colour shops Dessert spoons and forks and table knives are of the usual pattern, but the former can be had in aluminium and therefore much lighter than Britannia metal The camping-out valise is by all means the rucksack Never the knapsack I am almost... is quite a beautiful art You hold the wire handle between finger and thumb and put the little finger at the edge of the bottom rim It is thus able to tilt the mug to the exact angle which is most convenient for drinking When Gertrude had learnt the trick, she became perfectly enamoured of the mugs She sometimes brings one out at ordinary afternoon tea and insists that the tea is ever so much better drunk .