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172 CARAVAN DAYSThere is yet another method of progressionthat you may indulge in when you are tired andthere isnothing to call for notice in the view.By walking at the back of the crutch and layingboth your hands upon it you may, if you will,travel for a mile at a time with your eyes shut.To that itmay, reasonably perhaps, be objectedthat you do not want to travel with your eyesshut, and can think of nothing to be gained by sodoing. But if there were mice on the back of theWhite Knight's horse he didn't choose to havewill remember. Andthem running about, youifyou do want to walk with your eyesshut ifyou happen to be one of the people who do Ishould like to show you that this is the way todo it.Indeed I can think of no other wayto doit with any degree of comfort, with any senseof security from collision, with any real freedomfrom the jibes of those who pass that way. Andbefore you dismiss it as a futile sensation, mayI not ask ifyou have ever tried ? For my part itis my ambition to fall if possible into a perambulatoryslumber. I have been told that Frenchsoldiers sleep on the march. But I have neverbrought it off as yet.Another great diversion of the road isprovidedby short cuts. I adopt a reckless forward policy