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 =====Hymn of hate=====
-By Graco Edgecombe
+By Grace Edgecombe
 Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\
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 **A POINT TO REMEMBER**
-If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying
+If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass reading by as much as three degrees.
-to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass-reading by as much as three
-degrees.
+For the ordinary, rough and ready compass reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack
-For the ordinary, rough and ready compass-reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack
-- 10-
+=====From here there and everywhere=====
-FROM HERT,!_,_ THEL.F.E A-NJ), EVERYIkHER.E._
 In a booklet called - "Organised One-day, Week-end and Vacation Hiking Trips
 in North-eastern States" - published by The Hiking Trips Bureau of Hokokus, New Jersey, U.S.A., we found the following quotation from the bulletin of an inland (U.S.A.) hiking club: