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Updated: June 24, 2025
He was on his knees, leaning forward, his eyes directed toward the bird, the perspiration running in little streams down his red, mosquito-bitten face. His hat was awry, his bright hair rampant, his breast heaving with excitement, while he yet gripped the bulb with every ounce of strength in his body. "Do you think we were for getting it?" he asked. The Angel could only nod.
Smithson shuffled off up the bluff in search of the animals, which, when found, were treated in no very kindly manner by the sour faced, mosquito-bitten and generally disgusted tenderfoot, whose introduction into this new world was, apparently, taking all good-nature out of him. The mules made no resistance and were soon poking their noses into the creek waters where Smithson had led them.
"That's true, Barney; and not the least 'quare' among them is an Irishman, a particular friend of mine." "Hould yer tongue, ye spalpeen, or I'll put yer head in the wather!" "I wish ye would, Barney, for it is terribly hot and mosquito-bitten, and you couldn't have suggested anything more delightful.
The early descriptions of the colony are crowded with pictures of wretched immigrants, mosquito-bitten, or, in winter, half dead with cold, struggling through mud and swamp, to find the land whither they had come to evade the miseries of civilization, confronting them with the squalor and pains of nature.
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