"And beds," I continued, launching forth on my favourite topic, "can make or mar a_holiday. If you use canvas cots or hammocks, be sure you have plenty of bedding under you, more than on top, for they are beastly chilly, though comfy otherwise. If you should be tramping in the Anhui hills, however, I'm told, there's plenty of hemlock as soon as you get away from the villages and you can have your coolie pull plenty of that and make a "shingle bed," putting the first boughs crossways on the bed, then a second lot with the stubs tucked under the feathery part of the first, and so on."
"But I don't know that there will be a fir tree for miles round."
"Then if you take a bag made out of sheeting you can fill it with leaves, grass, hay or straw, or if that's uncertain there's always the air bed and pillow. Did you ever try inner tubes (but of course you haven't) blown up moderately and tied with cord lengthwise, with a sleeping bag on top? That's a flowery bed of ease any time. If you take small pillow cases you can stuff them at night with any spare clothing
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