TISH
TISH There was really nothing Tish was not prepared for. I should never have thought of grasshoppers. "The idea is simply this," observed Tish: "We have surrounded ourselves with a thousand and one things we do not need and would be better without houses, foolish clothing, electric light, idiotic servants Hannah, get away from that door ! rich foods, furniture and crowds of people. We Ve developed and cared for our bodies instead of our souls. What we want is to get out into the woods and think; to forget these pampered bodies of ours and to let our souls grow and assert themselves." We decided finally to take a blanket apiece, rolled on our shoulders, and Tish and I each took a strong knife. Aggie, instead of the knife, took a pair of scis sors. We took a small bottle of blackberry cordial for emergencies, a cake of soap, a salt-cellar for sea soning the fish and rabbits, two towels, a package of court-plaster, Aggie's hay-fever remedy, a bottle of oil of pennyroyal to use against mosquitoes, and a large piece of canvas, light but strong, cut like the diagram,
Tish said it was the regulation Indian tepee, and that a squaw could set one up in an hour and have 113
