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RAIN AND LACK OF RAIN 227Journalist and his Wife to sleep in the tent. Itwas not actually leaking, but it would be impossibleto keep the water out if anything touchedthe canvas, as is almost sure to happen with twobeds inside, and the surroundings were becomingsoft and boggy. I got out the spade and trenchedboth tents well about against encroaching floods,and Herbert covered hisbedding with a waterproofrug ;and we consulted weather prophets,all of whom adopted a most pessimistic tone andconcurred in the opinion that it looked like " thebeginning of a spate."Then I got out the Primus stove and kept itgoing the whole afternoon in the extra tent. Thecanvas, cooked on one side and drenched on theother, remained in a sort of neutral condition ofcrew inside.clammy warmth, and we concluded that we mustmake our arrangements to accommodate all theThat is rather a complicated undertakingand means not a littleforth,hauling back andstowing away, expanding and unfolding,fitting and adjusting. But it can be quitecomfortably done.The Journalist and his Wife appeared about5 p.m., having travelled straight from London toAchnasheen, and then traversed the hills in anopen motor, and I could not but envy them the