Finally, leave your business in such shape that it will not call you back; and do not carry off keys, &c., which others must have; nor neglect to see the dentist about the tooth that usually aches when you most want it to keep quiet.
For convenience the following list is inserted here. It is condensed from a number of notes made for trips of all sorts, except boating and horseback-riding. It is by no means exhaustive, yet there are very many more things named than you can possibly use to advantage upon any one tour. Be careful not to be led astray by it into overloading yourself, or filling your camp with useless luggage. Be sure to remember this.
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Axe
(in cover).
Axle-grease.
Bacon.
Barometer
(pocket).
Bean-pot.
Beans
(in bag).
Beef
(dried).
Beeswax.
Bible.
Blacking
and brush.
Blankets.
Boxes.
Bread
for lunch.
Brogans
(oiled).
Broom.
Butter-dish
and cover.
Canned
goods.
Chalk.
Cheese.
Clothes-brush.
Cod-line.
Coffee
and pot.
Comb.
Compass.
Condensed
milk.
Cups.
Currycomb.
Dates.
Dippers.
Dishes.
Dish-towels.
Drawers.
Dried
fruits.
Dutch
oven.
Envelopes.
Figs.
Firkin
(see p. 48).
Fishing-tackle.
Flour
(prepared).
Frying-pan.
Guide-book.
Half-barrel.
Halter.
Hammer.
Hard-bread.
Harness
(examine!).
Hatchet.
Haversack.
Ink
(portable bottle).
Knives
(sheath, table, pocket and butcher.)
Lemons.
Liniment.
Lunch
for day or two.
Maps.
Matches
and safe.
Marline.
Meal
(in bag).
Meal-bag
(see p. 32).
Medicines.
Milk-can.
Molasses.
Money
("change").
Monkey-wrench.
Mosquito-bar.
Mustard
and pot.
Nails.
Neat’s-foot
oil.
Night-shirt.
Oatmeal.
Oil-can.
Opera-glass.
Overcoat.
Padlock
and key.
Pails.
Paper.
"
collars.
Pens.
Pepper.
Pickles.
Pins.
Portfolio.
Postage
stamps.
Postal
cards.