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CHAPTER IIITHE DOMESTIC SIDEIHAVE already spoken of the comfortable senseof intimacy with his minor chattels that belongsto the caravanner. It is the good workman'slove for the feel of the tools that have been wornby long use to his hand. It is very good,opening ofat thea tour, to be back again among thedear, familiar things, the small contrivances, thespecialinstruments and utensils that have lainidle through the winter, and to meet again theold problems where you left them, as to whetherthe fruit-bag should be hungbeside the windowor beneath the candlesticks, as to which fryingpanshould be reserved for omelettes, as to whichhook must be kept for the wheel-key.I am thenin the position of a collector who has been restoredafter a long absence to his possessions.I cannotpoint to an ivory drinking-cup which I picked upin India or a calabash pipe from Johannesburgor an Italian statuette, as some may do. But Ihave the small, squat,blue kettle that came out18