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148 CARAVAN DAYSchildren, with an occasional languid wave of thearm. I pointed out this exampleof how thething should really be done to my Partner, butshe did not quite agree with me. We paid a longcallon them in the evening and inspected theircaravan's interior.Another party was conducted by a carter, whohad borrowed a van from his employerand wasout for a week's tour with his wife and family.There was an admirable efficiency about thisexpedition, though the van itself was of a heavy,lumbering type. But I came away with theimpression that, in centra-distinction to our otherfriends, in this case it was the wife and familywho were really enjoying themselves, while theburden rested heavily upon the man himself.Of the third party Icannot speak without acertain resentment and a certain deep misgivingfor the reputation of our craft. They had a largevan and it was a huge party eight in all, andall of them men. And they were of the sortwhich loves (I have never been able to understandit)to decorate the caravan with such announcementsas will attract the attention and the scornof the passer-by. They always carry gramophones,and they sing loudly in the small hoursof the morning. And after they are gone the