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animal life. Its effect upon us is best illustrated by the 
following incident. 
Our whole conimand stopped involuntarily, in mute admira- — 
tion ; at last, one poor fellow, a rough, uncouth specimen of an 
ox driver burst, out, “ Oh, if I was only a lawyer, how I could — 
talk about such a sight as this, but I havn’t the darnin to say ? 
what I want.” Now, whether there is anything peculiar in 
the legal profession, which gives a higher zest to enjoyment 
of the beautiful in nature, I confess I do not know, of one 
thing I am certain, that lawyer or doctor, saint or sinner, any 
- man who could gaze upon and not admire a scene like this, 
must be wanting in the very elements of the division between 
the human and animal. 
As every pleasure has its pain, every joy its sorrow, our 
feelings of admiration for the scenery, were soon merged into 
those of. pity, for our horses, mules and oxen. 
_ The great drawback to pleasure, at this season, on the 
prairie, is the immense number of insects. Among these, is a 
large, greenish brown horse fly, the most inveterate blood 
sucker of the genus. So ravenous are they, that, after settling 
down to their bloody work, they will allow themselves to be 
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their b lls, Perens ineranit im a lancet, and 
dep aunt < myriads, that I have seen a horse bathed 
in his own blood. An idea prevails, that they will attack a 
white horse, or mule, sooner than any other color, but this 
_ I think erroneous, and doubtless arises from the fact, that the 
