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round you day and night, when they fill the air you 
breathe and deafen your ears with their hum, when your 
hands, face and body are covered with itching lumps, it 
is hard to bear. But mosquitoes are comparatively quiet 
in the sun-light, and are partially affected by smoke ; 
they can be influenced by a smudge, can be frightened 
oft' and sometimes killed ; they do not compare Avith the 
sand-fly. 
The latter, almost invisible to the naked eye, comes in 
absolute myriads ; it settles upon every inch of exposed 
flesh ; it creeps into every crevice; it cannot be frightened 
away, but must be brushed oflf ; its worst attacks are at 
night, when tired nature is pining for a little rest ; its 
bite does not itch, but burns like fire, till face, hands and 
neck feel as though they had been scalded. But the 
sand-fly, bad as he is, can be persuaded out of your tent 
by a fire ; he does not abound except in sandy localities ; 
his bite does not draw blood, nor- raise a lumj), and is not 
permanent ; he does not compare with the black fly. 
The latter comes without a warning note ; he bites till 
the blood runs in a stream, and inflicts the sharpest pain ; 
he clings fast till he is absolutely rubbed oflf, and crawls 
up your sleeve or pants or down your neck ; he loves 
not the fire, nor fears the smoke ; he cannot be enticed 
nor driven away. The mosquito comes numerous as the 
rain-drops in a shower ; the sand-fly as the motes in sun- 
light ; but the black fly like the sand of the desert when 
the simoom is raging. Resignation can endure the first, 
stoicism the second, but nothing the last. 
All three of these pests are found abundantly in the 
woods, and without being prepared for them, instead of 
