86 The American Salmon-fisherman. 



gency. When exposed to attack, the cork is removed 

 from time to time, and a little of the contents of the bot- 

 tle is smeared on the face with the fingers. The face 

 need not be covered. A little here and there will suffice. 

 Indeed, if the flies are not very numerous and aggressive, 

 it will be enough to anoint the cloth near the face. 

 Though not what a particular man would select as a 

 perfume, still it is not disagreeable certainly not when 

 compared with fly-bites. It is a cleanly fluid, does not 

 discolor or disorder the skin, and is readily removable 

 by the ordinary process of washing. 



The generic name for mixtures of this kind at least 

 throughout the wilderness which intervenes between the 

 settlements of Maine and Canada is " bug-juice." Hu- 

 man life is thought to be too short by the ranger of the 

 wild-woods, and the articulations of his jaws are too in- 

 flexible for the terms " insect-repellant," " culexif uge," 

 and the many other appellations in vogue in the settle- 

 ments. 



Many stories, duly equipped with a moral, come to us 

 from a life destined soon to become historical only. 



Many of my readers have perhaps heard the following: 



A Western ranger, festooned with pistols and bowie- 

 knives like an Algerine corsair, at least like the Alge- 

 rine corsair of the picture-books, when asked what in 



he wanted to ballast himself that way for with such 



a lot of old iron, replied that though a nuisance to carry, 

 and though he wanted them but seldom, yet " when he 

 did want them he wanted them mighty bad ; that it was 

 better to be fixed." 



We may wifeh profit apply this moral to a mosquito- 



