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CHAPTER XXVICAMPERS'LUCK*WELL, yes, of course one is roughing it, as theysay. That is all right. You don't expect avagrant's life to be a bed of roses. I am notcomplaining of the rules of the game. I amalways prepared to rough it in a spacious, weatherproof,well-ventilated and luxuriously appointedcaravan, with a first-class stove, comfortablechairs and a thundering good bed.The troublelies not in the inherent privations of existence ontour far from it. The trouble lies solely in theups and downs, the undulations ifyou take mein the run of luck. Even so, it would be all rightif one thing did not lead to another. But it does.It runs in cycles generally of about twenty-fourhours. You can nearly alwaystell them as soonas you get up. It is in the air. The rubber bathacts as a sort of rough index for the day. If itbehaves well you are pretty sure to be all right.But if it begins flopping over when you are filling*My thanks arc due to the proprietors of Punch forpermission to republish this chapter. B. S.220