In setting out to lead the simple life the ultimate is to be recommended--and knapsacks are not the ultimate.

They are heavy things with the property of growing heavier, and prove of little use save to sit upon in damp places.

The doctor's feelings in regard to his were intensified by an utter lack of dampness anywhere.

The top of the hill was a sun-crowned eminence, blazingly, blisteringly, suffocatingly hot.

The valley, spread out beneath him, was soaked in sunshine, a haze of heat quivered visibly above the roofs of the pretty town it cradled.