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pets. All this time the mosquito is preparing to bite us, but it 

 is inside of the " tumbler." When the tumbler bursts open the 

 mosquito comes out, but as soon as he comes out he has to make 

 use of his wings, and if he doesn't, the " tumbler's skin " begins to 

 float on the water and knocks the mosquito over and it falls 

 into the water and gets drowned and that's why he has to use 

 his wings. 



The Mosquito and the Little Pond 



(By a Fourth-grade Pupil) 



In a pond there were some little eggs. In a few days there 

 could be seen a little creature wiggling around. It was little 

 Miss Wriggler. She lived down there in the pond very happy, 

 going ever so often up to the surface to get fresh air, till one day 

 she became a little tumbler. She tumbled and played, going 

 every once in a while up to the surface to get some fresh air, till 

 one day her skin split open and a perfect mosquito came flying 

 through the air ready to bite whomever she got a chance. This 

 mosquito lived about thirty-five days. She laid eggs four times 

 in her life. She laid about one hundred eggs each time. 



The Life of the Mosquito 



(By a Third-grade Pupil) 



I am going to tell you about the life of a mosquito. It lays 

 its eggs on the edge of the water. Some lay one at a time and 

 others lay them in bunches. A bunch of eggs is called an egg 

 boat. It lays several hundred in all. It takes about one day 

 for the egg to hatch into the larva. The larva has but one breath- 

 ing tube. Next comes the pupa. It has two breathing trumpets. 

 It is large at the head and then it grows small. The pupa splits 

 across the head and then it turns upside down and out comes 

 the mosquito. 



Do you know how little boys and girls can help to kill the 



