We were awfully sorry to finish our tramping camp. It was over much
too soon, but in the short time that we were at it we picked up lots
of health and enjoyment, and also a good many useful camp hints.
[Illustration: WHENEVER WE HAD A MOMENT TO SPARE SHE SET TO WORK TO
SCRUB THE SAUCEPAN.]
One of these--like so many great discoveries--was found by accident.
My wife, like a good Scout, kept everything very clean in camp, and
our joke was that whenever there was a moment to spare she would set
to work to scrub the saucepan. That seemed to be her favourite job,
using a handful of sand and a twist of coarse grass, and the result
was a bright, clean saucepan in which to cook our food.
A good deal of sickness comes in camps when dirty saucepans are used.
When she was not cleaning the saucepan her other spare minutes were
spent in cleaning up the camp ground, and burning all scraps.
One morning when doing this she made the great discovery. It was
this--how to make toast without a good fire. She had wrapped some
unused slices of bread in some waste paper, and put the whole lot
among the ashes of our palm-leaf fire in order to burn them.
The paper gradually charred and burnt itself away, and left the bread
behind it nicely roasted into crisp brown toast!
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