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break a leg in threshing about, if indeed she had not already done so. 
In this we had poor saccess and finally the bridge had to be chppped away, 
log by log. We then got an alpine rope around 
■pcFiied her a foot or towards the shore, then loosened up to allow her 
to breath again. This operation was repeated several times before we 
got her near enough to the shore to allow her to get on her feet and 
clamber fts toe r e out of the mud^>4 v Somewhat later I realized that probably 
no smajbl factor in getting that horse out of the quagmire was the fact 
that in her violent spasms of kicking she had succeeded in kijlcking out 
such a large quantity of mud that-the bog was not as high as when she 
fell in, and much of the mud landed on the members of our party, at least 
so it seemed when we had time to scrape the mud off ourselves. After 
scraping the mud off the horse we were very agreeably suprised to find 
that there was only one small insignificant scratch to be found. About 
the time we made this discovery the horse decided that she still had 
life enough to run away, which she forthwith attempted to do. Fortunate¬ 
ly Dr. Dodge, who was brought up on a farm and knew horses, intercepted 
her and held on to her nose long enough to choke off her wind, which 
seemed to effectually discouraged her ambition to leave us in fit hurry. 
Insect jjests:- 
The principal insect pests are the Adirondack Black Fly (Simulium 
molestum), the midge (Geratopogon spp.), the mosquito (Culex spp.), 
the moose-fly (Hadmatooia alcis), and the deer fly (Chrysops spp. and 
allied genera). 
The black fly is usually the most troiiblesome. On warm quiet days, 
particularly in burned-over lowland and above timber line they attack 
you in swam#. At such times fly-dopes are of &c avail. Perhaps the 
dope may be very obnoxious to the individual fly, gut there are such 
