204 FIVE AOEES TOO MUCH. 



however, compels me to admit that his views were 

 not entirely borne out by experience ; for, although 

 Flushing musquitoes have amiable tempers for mus 

 quitoes, they do occasionally bite. 



But if the musquitoes are not bad in this delecta 

 ble spot, another torment exists, which, in spite of 

 learned arguments proving its utility to man, is cer 

 tainly trying flies are occasionally abundant. Now 

 it may be that flies are great scavengers, and save us 

 from epidemics, and noxious smells, and dangerous 

 vapors, and that their presence is a sure indication of 

 a healthy locality ; but in the early morning, when 

 one is in bed, enjoying that most enjoyable season 

 for sleep the forbidden hours between sunrise and 

 eight o clock two or three hundred flies buzzing 

 about, alighting on one s face, crawling into one s 

 nostrils, tickling every inch of exposed skin, are ag 

 gravating enough. In saying two or three hundred, 

 I do not wish to be understood as positively confining 

 myself to that number for the reputation of the place 

 and the salability of my five acres of lots. I wish to 

 avoid exaggerating, and there may have been two or 

 three thousand. 



After they had routed me out of bed at an hour 

 when there was nothing whatever to do for the dai 

 ly papers can not be obtained in Flushing before 



