"It is a bad way of taking horses into the woods--leading so many of them together.

I have always felt that it was risky.

They ought to go separate, with a driver for every span.

This must be a lesson for the future." "It is an ill wind that blows no one any good," says the proverb.

Our disaster proved a bonanza to old Tommy Goss; he set his traps there all winter, near the frozen bodies of the horses, and caught marten, fishers, mink, "lucivees," and foxes by the dozen..