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ways chained on either side the door, and George's own 

 bed was made on the floor, about the middle of one side 

 of the room. Bar, Chance, and Alice were tied up in differ 

 ent places, so that there could be no entanglement of 

 chains, nor interference between one dog and the other. 



On the first morning of my paying a visit to my dogs, 

 after they had taken possession of their ample rooms, I 

 shall not easily forget the appearance from the attacks of 

 mosquitoes of my servant's face and hands. It seemed as 

 if all the mosquitoes around St Louis, attracted by lodgings 

 agreeable to themselves so near their favourite site (a 

 river), had congregated there with very little to subsist 

 on until the arrival of a man and dogs. When that 

 amount of life and warm blood was infused into their 

 hitherto pro visionless haunts, then, indeed, they revelled ; 

 for in summing up his grievances to me, George said that 

 the mosquitoes so attacked the dogs that they did little 

 else than scratch, shake, and snap throughout the entire 

 night. In these upper rooms, belonging to Mr Campbell, 

 no attempts were made on Druid's privacy similar to an 

 accidental one which I forgot to narrate in its right place, 

 as having happened in Mr Easton's room at Cincinnati. 

 At Cincinnati, the foreman, I think, or clerk, to Mr Eas- 

 ton, unaware that the room was so tenanted, without ce 

 remony flung open the door, when his advancing leg, 

 amidst a roar from all the dogs, was within a hair's 

 breadth of being seized by Druid and Brutus. Had he 

 not been immensely on his haunches, and taken the brisk 

 est" skip to the rear, the consequences might have been 

 exceedingly unpleasant to rne, as well as to himself, for I 

 should have been the cause, though indirectly, of injury 

 to a trustworthy and good man. 



On my arrival, and through Mr R, Campbell, I reported 



