INSECT INTRUDERS. 



Not so in the East and more especially 

 in the moist tropical portions of the 

 East. Here Insect Life may be said, in 

 a Yankee form of speech, to boss the 

 situation and to reign supreme : and 

 most unpleasant can these Intruders into 

 our Indian homes make themselves. It 

 may be difficult for the stay-at-home to 

 picture what the Biblical Insect Plagues 

 meant to the Egyptian, and he may well 

 be forgiven if he good-naturedly char- 

 acterises them, with other Eastern 

 imagery, as a fctfon de parler. 



East of Suez we know differently ! 



Have we not seen that common insig- 

 ; / nificant House Fly 



in such numbers that 



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it has been impos- 

 sible to sit or stand, eat or sleep, 

 think, or even swear, with any 

 , degree of comfort ? 



V Have we not ever with us that 



most insidious of all insect 

 foes the malaria-giving 

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