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MOSQUITOES IN ARKANsAs,---" Where
did all that happenl" asked cynical look


ing hooser


Happenl Happened in Arkansas;
where else could it have happened, but in
the creation State--the finishing up coun.
try; Stale where the sile runs down 10
the centre of the earth, and Government
gives title to every inch Of IN Then is
airs, just breathe them, and they will make
you snort like horse. lbs State with.
out fault; il is.n


"Excepting musquitocs,' cried the hoo
sier.


"Wel, well, stranger, excepting them;
for il is fact that they are rather enor-
nous, and do push themselves in some
what troublesome. But stranger, they
will never stick twice in the same place,
and you will get as much above them as
an alligator. They don't hurt my feel
ings, for they lay under the skin, and |
never knew Of but one case Of injury re-
sulting from them and that was Yankee,
and they take worse on foreigners any
how, than they do to natives. But the
way they used the fellow! they punched
him until he swelcd up and busted, then
he sep-per-a-ted, as doctors call 1t, until ho
was raw as beef; then ho took the ager,
owing to the warm weather, and finally
took a steamboat and left the country
He was the only man that every took mus
quitoes to heart, tha, know Of. But mus
quitoes Is nature, and never find fault
withher; If they are large, Arkansas is
large, her varmints are large, and small
musquito would be Of no more use in Ar
kansas than preaching in a canebreak."