The Archive · 1924

The Mischievous Mosquito

What To Do Till Morning Comes!

[At last one reaches the conclu sion, which should have been reach-hour back, namely that "something has to be done' about this!" "You turn on the light and have a little pogrom of your ova, However hard it may be to raise your band against your own flesh and blood, you nerve yourself to the task. "How elusive a mosquito can be. "How deftly he. tucks himself away ina crevice of the bed linen fo emerge when the coast is clear. How successful he is in dodging your blows.

One of the mysteries of this visit ation is how they get in. The net is never torn, it is. always tucked in, "how does it happen? The answer is hard to find unless one has retained a faith in a personal devil, and that explains everything. With a sigh of sympathy for Job you sink off again, perhaps to sleep 4ill"morning, perhaps not. The queer thing about itis that no mi ter how many times this programme is repeated it, is. always} Just as hurd to believe that the only Solution for the problem is to rouse ones self and take direct and drastic Action. Always the reluctance of waking sufficiently to deal with the has to be met, always preping minutes' are. wasted. The difficulty. is psychological well as. physical. "The only hope! glimpsed for the future is 'a mos-ulto drill which with long practice will become automatic, so that at first piercing zzzip one will awake, perform the necessary slaughter and woo the balmy once! once again, By Busanersc Prova.

Volumes might be written mosquito extermination by solentists and men of commerce interested in

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