And there seated in the opening of our little tent, I began the strange tale of The House on the Borderland (for such was the title of the MS.); this is told in the following pages.

To pitch all types of Army tents, except shelter and conical wall tents: Mark line of tents by driving a wall pin on the spot to be occupied by the right (or left) corner of each tent.

Double shelter tents may be pitched by first pitching one tent as heretofore described, then pitching a second tent against the opening of the first, using one rifle to support both tents, and passing the front guy ropes over and down the sides of the opposite tents.

D. You will find him in a separate tent.

We were all too used up to go any further, or even put up our light tent, although it soon began to rain.

" Down in the desolate hollow a ragged A tent, sagged away from the prevailing wind.

The royal tents were exceedingly beautiful and magnificent, and his bed was ornamented with scarlet hangings.

They will have no fortified place from which to commence their operations, but must rest them on no better base than a set of wretched tents, and such means as the necessities of the moment will allow them.

The orderlies live in two comfortable tents in the hospital garden, one of which, is occupied by those on day duty, the other by those on night duty.

The captain then causes the company to take intervals as described in the School of the Squad and commands: PITCH TENTS.

The cold air from the sea stung our cheeks sharply as we left the close atmosphere of the little crowded tent.

And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice.

We proposed to leave the wall tent at the Base, but to take the pyramidal tent with us on the climb.

The heart of this vast cone has partly fallen out, and left the resemblance of an enormous tent with cavernous recesses and halls, in which the shades of evening were already lurking, and the surf was sounding mournfully.

SHELTER TENTS.

The unvarying routine of our daily life in smoky Korak tents, and the uniform flatness and barrenness of the country over which we journeyed, became inexpressibly tiresome, and we looked forward in longing anticipation to the Russian settlement of Gizhiga, at the head of Gizhiginsk Gulf, which was the Mecca of our long pilgrimage.

The woman wore the garb of a gipsy, and the presence of some squalid tents and tethered horses showed our young friends at once that it was a gipsy encampment upon which they had happened.

The yellow flag floated from an immense tent near the roadway.

The word prandium, in short, converted the palace into the imperial tent; and Cæsar was no longer a civil emperor and princeps senatûs, but became a commander-in-chief amongst a council of his staff, all belted and plumed, and in full military fig.

The next scene exhibits Godfrey and Bohemond in fierce quarrel about a splendid tent, which, being intended as a gift for the former, had been seized by an Armenian chief and sent to the latter.

In wet weather tents should be ditched, and in windy or cold weather dirt may be banked around them.

Indeed, but for these, and the torn tent, I think it would, of course, have been possible to ignore the existence of this beast intruder altogether.

At times when it was brightest came troops of the natives, strange-looking figures, clad in hairy skins, and with sledges made out of hard fragments of ice; they brought skins to exchange, which the sailors were only too glad to use as warm carpets inside their snow houses, and as beds whereon they could rest under their snowy tents, while outside prevailed an intensity of cold such as we never experience during our severest winters.

on return: the ice mainly collected on the inner tent.

A gorgeous tent, larger than the hall, to which it was fastened, and supported by poles overlaid with silver, was pitched outside.