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Updated: June 13, 2025
"When you know where a mosquito's at, what do you do to him? Plenty. I ain't looking to be squashed." "They's plenty boys begging to take me out every hour in the day. Swell lads, too. I ain't waiting round for any greasy mechanic like you. Don't think it. Say, lookit your nails! They'd queer you with me, let alone what else all is wrong with you."
"The instant I saw your face I knew you were here to flirt with Miss Gordon." "Oh, no, Miss Hastings," protested Selma with quaint intensity of seriousness, "I assure you he was not flirting. He was telling me about the reform movement he and his friends are organizing." "That is his way of flirting," said Jane. "Every animal has its own way and an elephant's way is different from a mosquito's."
Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary, eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
Another sound which is typical of summer is the hum of insects' wings, sometimes, as near a beehive, rising to a subdued roar. The higher, thinner song of the mosquito's wings is unfortunately familiar to us, and we must remember that the varying tone of the hum of each species may be of the greatest importance to it as a means of recognition.
Keep away the rest of you fellows! I feel as if I'd been through a battle. No more marshes for me." Some of the provident produced bottles of oil of pennyroyal. Sergeant Daniel Whitley, who rode a giant bay horse, was one of the most foreseeing in this respect, and, after the boys had used his soothing liniment freely, the fiery torment left by the mosquito's sting passed away.
"For heaven's sake, let me cough, or knock something over!" Who could have imagined that it would be so heavenly a sensation to have your nose tickled by a woman's hair? "There's nothing you can knock over, but me," Biddy retorted, as fiercely as she could in a voice no louder than a mosquito's. "And if you cough, I'll know you're a dog-in-the-manger." "Why?" curiosity forced me to pursue.
The mosquito must bite the patient during the first three days of the fever; after that a yellow fever patient cannot infect a mosquito. A period of twelve days must elapse before the mosquito is able to infect another person. After that she may infect anyone she may bite; that is, the germs remain virulent during the rest of the mosquito's life.
The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
Maya had to press her hand to her heart, so startled was she by the mosquito's daring. "Will it die?" she cried. "Where did you wound it? How could you? How could you screw up your courage to sting it? And how vile! Why, you're a beast of prey!" The mosquito tittered. "Why, it's only a very little human being," it answered in its high, thin voice.
Thousands of these insects, of the largest size and of the most pertinacious character, came out of the high grass and "made night hideous." We had not provided ourselves with a tent, and no artifice on our part could protect us from these torments; so, vainly dealing blows right and left, we discussed the oft-mooted point of the mosquito's usefulness to mankind.
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