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44 CARAVAN DAYSvaluable second string. But I should like toexpress my hearty contemptserious cooking with spirit lamps.for all efforts atI would aboutas soon try to carve with a penknife or digpotatoes with a spoon.Let us now look into the Middleroom. Itswalls are of dark green painted canvas, and thewoodwork is white. It is almost square, butone of the corners, as you will see, is missing,owing to the bite taken out by the kitchen recess.There are three folding chairs and tables on eitherside. The windows on both sides slide up anddown.But the strong point of the middleroomis the complete and ingenious occupation of itswall-space. It would not be easy to lay yourhand upon any part of the wall that is notrendering special service. Above my Partner'shead is a small corner cupboard (salt, pepper, tea,coffee, etc.), and below that an ink-bottle andpen, slung in leather loops. Near the roof, in theOld Campaigner's corner, is a light railway rack,corresponding to a similar one above my ownhead. On the side walls are a bag for fruit, ahook for candlesticks, a satchel for unansweredletters. The wall at the back of the recesscarries a knife-and-fork box lined with greenbaize, carvers, corkscrews, tin-openers in leather