Hal and his sister and brother-in-law listened unwillingly, pitched tent, and overhauled the outfit.

Canned goods were turned out that made men laugh, for canned goods on the Long Trail is a thing to dream about.

"Blankets for a hotel" quoth one of the men who laughed and helped.

"Half as many is too much; get rid of them.

Throw away that tent, and all those dishes,--who's going to wash them, anyway?
Good Lord, do you think you're travelling on a Pullman ?" And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the superfluous.