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Updated: May 23, 2025
Johanna stood whispering loudly at Barbara's bedside: "Week up, honey; sun high an' scoldin'! jess a-fuss-in' an' a-scoldin'!" One dark hand lifted back the white mosquito-net while the other tendered a cup of coffee. Barbara winked, scowled, laid her wrists on the maid's shoulders and smiled into her black face. Johanna put away a brown wave of hair.
Robert H. Davis, editor of Munsey's, replies in this wise: "If you went out with a mosquito-net to catch a mess of minnows your story would read like Roman gladiators seining the Tigris for whales." Now, I am at a loss to know how to take that compliment.
The sun had hardly risen, yet the air hung heavy in the shrubs surrounding my sleeping-hut. Damp heat and light poured into the shed-like room, where hundreds of flies and as many mosquitoes sought an entrance into my mosquito-net.
This gallery is used as a general dining-room; each person eats at his own little iron table placed before the door of his bedroom. An iron frame holds the mosquito-net in place. Evidently a wash-stand is a thing to be ashamed of, for they are concealed in the most ingenious way.
At this camp the carregadores ants completely devoured the doctor's undershirt, and ate holes in his mosquito-net; and they also ate the strap of Lyra's gun-case. The little stingless bees, of many kinds, swarmed in such multitudes, and were so persevering, that we had to wear our head-nets when we wrote or skinned specimens. The following day was almost without rain.
My pillow, a Chinese model, is a kind of little square drum covered over with serpent- skin. We sleep under a gauze mosquito-net of sombre greenish-blue, dark as the shades of night, stretched out on an orange-colored ribbon. This sounds very pretty, and written down looks very well. In reality, however, it is not so; something, I know not what, is lacking, and everything is very paltry.
In this mosquito-net you live, move, and have your being until morning; and should you venture to pull it aside, even for an hour, you will appall your friends, next morning, with a face which suggests the early stages of small-pox, or the spotted fever. The valuable information I have now communicated is the sum of what I learned in that one day at Mrs.
They are hovering in a thick cloud about him; those of the house and those of the garden all seem collected together, swarming and buzzing. He, tired out with his day's amusement, sleeps on; but his slumbers are restless, as may be easily imagined. Chrysantheme gives him a shake, wishing him to get up and share our blue mosquito-net.
"What do you mean, Rahe?" "I want you to give me some of that medicine you use to make your boat sail." "I use no medicine, only Motu strong arms." "You could never have come along now without medicine." "We use no medicine, and have come along well." I had a splendid night's rest. My mosquito-net and blanket caused great amusement.
A few hints may therefore be inserted here without apology for the benefit of other travellers. The first articles to be considered are a tent, bed, and mosquito-net. Now when the usual oblong tent with a penthouse roof is pitched and the bed made, surmounted by the mosquito-net, the only place in which there is room for it, is in the middle of the tent between the two poles.
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