Morning prayers[7] followed breakfast and of the routine of the rest of the day Simon Lyman of Sharon wrote "we marched out in the morning and exercised and in the afternoon we marched out again and exercised again".[183] Captain Lewis in his _Orderly Book_ recorded the following order "For the future the fatigue parties to parade at 7 o'clock in the morning and return at eleven to their dinners and parade again at two".[184] Then came supper, evening prayers[185] and tat-too. Camp life was, however, not all a routine of reveille, prayers, drills, meals, and tat-too for there were hundreds of other things which had to be done. There were huts to build[186], roads to make,[187] entrenchments to construct,[188] fuel to collect,[189] supplies to provide,[190] armaments to make or clean, and drills for the "awkward squad",[191] besides guard and fatigue duty;[192] not to mention the more domestic duties of cooking,[193] of washing and mending clothes,[194] and cleaning huts, or acting as 'grass guard.'[195] It can hardly be said that any hard and fast rule was followed in the matter of camp activities for there were circumstances continually arising which altered affairs; there were parades before a visiting officer,[196] and days taken off for washing. Then, too, there was the lack of a permanent organization of the army, which was a serious hindrance in following any different course, for the short time enlistment men were constantly leaving and the new recruits were coming into camp, all of which broke into the routine of camp[197] and often nothing of importance was accomplished for weeks at a time. Simon Lyman of Sharon wrote of the week following August 29, 1775. "Friday, 29th, In the forenoon we went round the town, and in the afternoon we putted up our tents and marched through Cambridge to Charlestound, there we was stationed, we put up our tents. Tuesday, 3th I rubbed up my gun and looked round the forts. Wednesday 4th w(eg)ot some boards to fix out tents and it rained and we did not do it. Thursday 5th It rained, and I wrote a letter home and staid around the house."[198] When the new recruit was given the duty of being on guard with the orders that he was not to sleep or leave his post he felt for the first time the hand of authority, he felt that the orders were ridiculous when he must shave every day and appear at roll call every morning with his hair powdered, but when he could not go more than a mile from camp without a pass and that only two furloughs were allowed at one time,[199] then he was sure that his personal liberty was imposed upon.