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about the floor fully a foot in depth, were all 

 four, drunk and sleeping soundly. By some of 

 their restless, unconscious motions the straw had 

 been pushed against the hot stove, and when I 

 looked in had already commenced blazing. I of 

 course extinguished it as soon as possible, and 

 awoke them. Had I not providentially chanced to 

 call as I did, some one of the party, if not all, 

 would in all probability have been fatally burned, 

 for all were too stupefied to save themselves. 



As a local remedy for acute muscular rheu- 

 matism, a mustard-plaster placed immediately 

 upon the part affected will, in most cases, soon 

 prove effectual. If the white of an egg be mixed 

 with the plaster, no blistering will ensue. 



Ague. — Never start out to shoot in the morn- 

 ing with an empty stomach. Eat something, if 

 it be no more than a cracker ; you will be less 

 liable to be attacked by ague. Be careful, also, 

 to avoid drinking warm slough water. Different 

 remedies are required by different persons to 

 cure ague ; . as for myself, I have so far got 

 along without requiring any, never having ex- 

 perienced a touch of " the shakes." 



