One
Might As Soon Think Of Packing A Folding Step-Ladder.
But if he has
the transport, the man who packs any reasonably light folding chair
will not regret it.
As a rule, a cooking kit is built like every other cooking kit in
that the utensils for cooking are carried in the same pot that is
used for boiling the water, and the top of the pot turns itself into
a frying-pan. For eight years I always have used the same kind of
cooking kit, so I cannot speak of others with knowledge; but I have
always looked with envious eyes at the Preston cooking kit and water-
bottle. Why it has not already been adopted by every army I do not
understand, for in no army have I seen a kit as compact or as light,
or one that combines as many useful articles and takes up as little
room. It is the invention of Captain Guy H. Preston, Thirteenth
Cavalry, and can be purchased at any military outfitter's.
The cooking kit I carry is, or was, in use in the German army. It is
made of aluminum, - weighs about as much as a cigarette-case, and
takes up as little room as would a high hat. It is a frying-pan and
coffee-pot combined. From the Germans it has been borrowed by the
Japanese, and one smaller than mine, but of the same pattern, is part
of the equipment of each Japanese soldier. On a day's march there
are three things a man must carry:
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