Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . geons flying or alit, robins and thrushes,and what other mellow-throated songsters I knoAvnot, making the vistas and aisles of shadow alivewith sound ; but look down, and your horse wasbalking at a labyrinth of stumps, where thereAvas no place to put his foot: this extending forten rods, and there terminating in a slough ag-gravated by the floating debris of a corduroybridge, and this ending in a mud-hole, the black-ness of darkness, with one stump upright toprevent your wading comfortably through it, totransfix your horse or upse
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . geons flying or alit, robins and thrushes,and what other mellow-throated songsters I knoAvnot, making the vistas and aisles of shadow alivewith sound ; but look down, and your horse wasbalking at a labyrinth of stumps, where thereAvas no place to put his foot: this extending forten rods, and there terminating in a slough ag-gravated by the floating debris of a corduroybridge, and this ending in a mud-hole, the black-ness of darkness, with one stump upright toprevent your wading comfortably through it, totransfix your horse or upset the cart. The carts and their drivers could not gerthrough by daylight, but were compelled to stayin the woods and figlit mosquitoes all night,reaching Alexandria about noon the next Joseph and I, on our ponies, thridded the som-bre boskage of the wood, and got to Alexandriabefore dark. It was slow traveling, but, on sure-footed Indian ponies, not very disagreeable. Themosquitoes were our worst torment; we avoidedtheir terebrations by taking the TAKING TUE VAIL. TO EED RIVER AND BEYOND. 301
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