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ENCOUNTERS 205tented family, and the children all had a strikinglyhealthy and well-fed appearance. There was awayside station near by, and one of the smallboys was much taken up with the railway.found him peering into a coach of first-class" Wouldn' it mak'carriages with dilated eyes.a "lovely gorryvon?In the morning, after the Official Photographerhad taken special portraits of the baby andwe had bequeathed sundry spare supplies uponthe rest of the tribe, we said farewell.As showing the varieties of human experiencethat fall to the lot of the caravanner I cannot dobetter than describe my two callers of two consecutivenights in the neighbourhood of Dalwhinnie.The first was a dear little, old, white-haired ladyclean and sun-burned and wrapped in a brownshawl, who came to ask for a few lumps of sugaras the shop was closed. She was walking toPerth, she told me, with her husband, who hadgot work there. I asked if there was anythingelse she would like. But no, they were only shortof sugar, it seemed. They had hoped to sleepin a shed by the railway, but it had been burneddown since last they passed that way. But itwas " no great matter " as she knew ofnot far from the road only two miles on.Ia caveThere