As most of the boys had their lubras with them, it was
an immense camp, but exceedingly pretty. One small
tent " fly " for a dressing-room for the missus, and the
remainder of the accommodation — open-air and shady
bough gundies ; tiny, fresh, cool, green shade-houses here,
there, and everjrwhere for the blacks ; one set apart from
the camp for a larder, and an immense one — all green
waving boughs — for the missus to rest in during the heat
of the day. " The Cottage," Dan caUed it.
Of course, Sool'em and Brown were with us. Little
Tiddle'ums being in at the homestead on the sick list
with a broken leg ; and in addition to Sool'em and Brown
an innumerable band of nigger dogs, BUly Muck being
the adoring possessor of fourteen, including pups, which
fanned out behind him as he moved hither and thither
Uke the tail of a comet.
Our camp being a stationary one, was, by comparison
with our ordinary camps, a campe-de-luxe ; for, apart from
the tent-fly, in it were books, pLUows, and a canvas lounge,
as well as some of the flesh-pots of Egypt, in the shape
of eggs, cakes, and vegetables sent out every few dajrs by
Cheon, to say nothing of scrub turkeys, fish, and such things.
Dan had no objection to the eggs, cakes, or vegetables,
but the pUlows and canvas lounge tried him sorely.
