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experience of Cascapedia insects. I feel 

 pretty sure that newcomers suffer more than 

 those who have already undergone the ex- 

 perience, and it has always seemed to me 

 probable that the human blood, if once it 

 has been inoculated with the mosquito virus, 

 may become comparatively immune after- 

 wards. 



Butterflies were plentiful, notably the 

 beautiful swallow-tail. My sons, who like 

 most boys were keen entomologists, once 

 caught a black variety of this species, which 

 they were told by the experts was rare and 

 valuable, but they never got a second. 



Of trees I have said something elsewhere. 

 Amongst the shrubs none were more beauti- 

 ful than the so-called high bush cranberries, 

 a Cornus of some kind, bearing great clus- 

 ters of scarlet fruit not unlike its Irish rela- 

 tive to be found on most of the Kerry 

 streams. Of small wild flowers there were 

 any number, including a tiny and very 

 beautiful orchid — I believe the most north- 

 erly species of its kind. On the beaches and 



