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Has "Touchstone" ever been in the swamps
of Mississippi or Louisiana? We doubt it,
or if he has been, he must have escaped an
introduction TO the staple commodity Of those
regions. We do not speak positively as TO the
size and length of the bills, butjudging Of the
effect, they must be pretty considerable sized
animals. AS TO the fibbing-excuse us, if you
please The article found its way into the Foun-
tain as all other scissorngs do, of the truth
or falsehood Of which, we are, in the nature
of things, ignorant. Our private opinion, how
ever, is. that the story is a pretty tall one We
did not intend though to have expressed ii thus
publicly, but for the letter Of 'Touchstone."
When we read it, gentleman was present
from Galveston, Texas, upon whom we called
for information relative to the authenticity Of
the "item." He observed. that mosquitoes
bills were much longer in the South then they
are here, (and he ought to know, for we pre-
sumo he has felt li,lle tickling from them oc-
casionaly) and also, that they were much less
poisonous.


They are large enough here, that's certain.
We are harrassed enough with "bills" of an
other nature, much less bills Of animal ma
ture.