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Show A CAMPING PARTY. 315 tents. 'Bed bugs are indigenous to this country', said he, 'they grow on the trees. Not far from here a boarder in one of the hotels informed the proprietor that he could not sleep at night for the bugs. The proprietor advised him to sprinkle his bed with tobacco. So he invested in a bag of fine-cut and made a ridge of it all around him. He awoke in the night under the impression that it was storming dreadfully and leaking on his head. Upon further examination he found the bugs chewing the tobacco and spitting in his face.' , '"Perhaps, you think there-are no mosquitoes here,' said the stranger. ' I can tell you a funny thing that happened to the boys when they were working on the James Peak wagon road. They were greatly annoyed by mosquitoes. One night two Irishmen pulled their blankets over their heads and kept them there until they were nearly smothered. At last, one, gasping from heat and suffocation, ventured to peep beyond the bulwarks and espied a fire-fly that had straj^ed into the tent. Arousing his companion with a punch, he said: ' Hogan, it's no use, yez might as well come out; there is one of the bloody craychures lookin' for us with a lantern.' "The talkative gentleman then informed us that the place where we were camping was once a flourishing town, called Montgomery. In '63, it had three thousand inhabitants, and all kinds of business were represented. The gold ore proved refractory, and could not be profitably worked. The people drifted away, following other excitements, until in 1870 there was not a single person left except the silent, quiet occupants of the grave-yard. " Silver was discovered on Mt. Lincoln and Mt. Bross, |
