imbedded in the leather where they 
scratched the toe of the ones who wore 
the boots. The story is probably as 
unreliable as most of the stories and 
beliefs regarding negroes, but it does 
emphasize the tourist’s need of being 
watchful as regards streamside reptiles 
where there are water or calico moc¬ 
casins. 
Too much emphasis is laid on such 
perils as one may meet, even in a state¬ 
ment as moderate as the one I am 
making now. In the category of an¬ 
noyances there are mosquitoes, galli- 
nippers, hornets, ants, flies and bees. 
Many a tourist party has had its plea¬ 
sures greatly diminished by the insects 
which are more or less difficult to avoid. 
Mosquitoes are found in marshes, in 
woods, in places sheltered from the 
winds, in areas of sloughs and in the 
neighborhood of water. They are car¬ 
riers of malaria germs, and precau¬ 
tions should be taken to keep away 
from them. This isn’t easy to do, if 
one is taking advantage of fishing op¬ 
portunities, or lake and streamside 
camp grounds. 
Mosquito dope is often more impor¬ 
tant than anything else, in the medici¬ 
nal line. Oil of citronella pennyroyal, 
or oil of tar, are among the standard 
mosquito repellants. Mixed either in 
tallow, or in some animal oil or grease, 
rubbing on the mixture, will keep the 
insects away at night. Their buzzing, 
however, is exceedingly annoying to 
tired nerves. Mosquito bar, so-called 
cheese-cloth or bobbinette, will serve 
to make a tent inside the shelter-tent 
and keep the intruders at a distance. 
Flies are an astonishment to many 
tourists. They are a terrific annoyance 
to cattle, hog and other grazing or 
raising country. Driving along, one 
notices nothing to arouse suspicion, 
and pulling out beside the road in the 
shade of some lone tree, lunch is 
brought out for eating. In five minutes 
everything is swarming with flies, and 
there comes up the wind a veritable 
line of these insects, visible for long 
distances. 
After such experiences one learns to 
seek a windy hilltop, an eating place 
with a lee of barren sand and alkali, 
or at least a vast expanse of country 
without cattle, horses, sheep or hogs. 
Of course, in some countries there are 
no hills and no vacant spaces. It often 
pays to build a good smudge fire up 
wind from the car and the luncheon 
table. This spreads smoke which is 
somewhat annoying to humans, but it 
generally is completely efficacious in 
driving away or keeping at a distance 
the much more annoying and sometimes 
deadly dangerous flies. 
In season, winged ants are difficult 
to evade. The silken handkerchiefs 
worn around the necks of cowboys 
speak for the ants’ ability to annoy 
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