Only two of them knew anything about roughing it.

The thought of the inviting look of the white-covered bed upstairs lay like a balm on the spirits of men not born to roughing it.

"Ah, there is nothing like roughing it, Mr. Stafford, sir," he said.

Nor have I been; but I've got a letter in my pocket from a very great friend of mine who is roughing it on a cattle-run, and he has so often described the country to me, that I almost feel as if I knew it.

Read the thirtieth chapter of the second volume of Mark Twain's "Roughing It" (1872) and you will find Kipling's story clearly outlined.

Though I thus resolved, I said nothing of it to Master Ratsey, but only nodded, and he went on 'Well, seeing there was no one save this poor girl to look to putting Maskew under ground, I must needs take it in hand myself; roughing together a sound coffin and digging as fair a grave for him as could be made for any lord, except that lords have always vaults to sleep in.

While "roughing it" is far more enticing to the inexperienced and indiscreet explorer, I learned in Peru that the humdrum expedient of carefully preparing, months in advance, a comprehensive bill of fare sufficiently varied, wholesome, and well-balanced, is "the better part of valor," The truth is that providing an abundance of appetizing food adds very greatly to the effectiveness of a party.

It was not of a very exalted nature, and caused more strain upon the back than the intellect, but seven years of roughing it had left him singularly free from caste prejudices, a freedom which he soon discovered was not shared by his old acquaintances at Sunwich.

Of their patience under the manifold hardships of roughing it in the tropics, their helpfulness in the camp and their prowess in battle, their uncomplaining suffering when lying wounded and helpless.

the young lady will have a chance of roughing it, for the portages on that route are a caution, so Astor says," Mrs. M'Kree answered, then fairly danced round the room.

ROUGHING IT IN THE WILDS OF CANADA XXII.

He was the second of the three Wilder brothers, who had been among the early gold-seekers, and tried roughing it in the mines.

"I am used to roughing it," I urged; "and besides, I will pay for any trouble I may give you.

The evening was a trifle chilly for June, but I've been used to roughing it all my life, especially when I was afloat, and I went into the office and began to take my clothes off.

A friend with whom we once travelled thought he was roughing it daily for the space of three weeks, because he was obliged to lunch on cold chicken and un-iced Champagne, and when it rained he was forced to seek shelter inside very inelegant hotels on the road.

Spirituous liquors are no help in roughing it.

'You are making a delightful experiment in roughing it,as people eat pic-nic dinners out in the woods occasionally, so that there may be a break in the monotony of chairs and tables.' While Shand had been unravelling her mystery, she, perhaps, had been more successful in unravelling his.

'You are doing a bit of roughing,no doubt for the sake of experience.

If you only knew the sort of roughing I've had in my time!' 'I dare say.' 'Salt pork and hard biscuit, and only half enough of that.

This was roughing it indeed.

There they were, thinly tented in the rain, and the dew, and the mist, a busy, boisterous, womanless camp of diggers and grubbers, roughing-and- tumbling it in the scramble for gold mites, with no quiet Sabbath breaks, nor Sabbath songs, nor Sabbath bells to measure off and sweeten a season of rest.

I've found the same after roughing it," I agreed.

I guess it's for people who like to think they're roughing it when they're really just as comfortable as they would be if they stayed at home.

But we're really roughing it, I guess.

Neither he nor she were fitted by their habits, or indeed by the conditions of their health, to encounter much "roughing," and a certain amount of that was assuredly inevitablea good deal more five-and-twenty years ago than would be the case now.