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stances the music, based on a rhythm at present 
not thoroughly understood, though pleasing to 
some, becomes so noisy that it is difficult to 
converse. The crickets and frogs rival each 
other for volume of sound, the one taking up 
the chant where the other leaves off, and then 
both joining in the chorus until seemingly ex¬ 
hausted, their notes growing fainter until they 
are lost in an awful noise created by a monster 
frog as he thrills the air with some masterpiece. 
’Tis well to have a tent such as we carry, 
composed of two parts, the outer one of very 
thin waterproof canvas arranged as a leanto. 
and the other, a wedge-shaped and made of 
mosquito net, to be pitched inside the leanto. 
The insects £re numerous, and our old enemy, 
the mosquito, is quite anxious to acquaint him¬ 
self with the full variety of food nature has 
placed at his disposal. It is a real joy to put 
into a place infested with mosquitoes, all of 
them equipped with the most approved appa¬ 
ratus for their particular kind of work, to shut 
them out entirely—to lie down 'in the tent and 
go to sleep while the whole army of puncturing 
pests are humming outside. Some of the 
greatest pleasures to be had in camping and 
cruising are in overcoming the small though 
very persistent pests which otherwise would 
mar an enjoyable time amid surroundings only 
to be found where the pests exist. Any one 
can rought it, but like our revered “Nessmuk,” 
we prefer to smooth it. 
Amid the croaking of frogs and the din of 
crickets and the occasional splash of a muskrat 
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