LiXXlI. September Notes 



DID you ever stop (slap!) to consider the 

 the mosquito? Did it ever occur to you 

 that if a boy had an appetite in propor- 

 tion to his size like that of a mosquito 

 (slap!) he would eat a whole ox at a meal? Perhaps 

 you think a mosquito too small a thing to occupy 

 your thoughts. If so (slap!) you have another 

 guess coming. Until science made a few epoch- 

 making discoveries the mosquito prevented some of 

 the mightiest works. Because it carries the germs 

 of yellow fever it delayed the building of the Panama 

 canal for years and increased the cost of all kinds 

 of public works. By carrying the germs of malaria 

 and giving people the ague it made the clearing 

 of many parts of Canada doubly hard. ( Slap ! 

 slap!) And this year it is a temper-rousing, sleep- 

 destroying pest. With every cow-track full of water 

 it has breeding places everywhere and you can hear 

 its hum wherever you go. (Slap! Missed again!) 

 Even though we have screens on the windows and 



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