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Around the Office — Continued 



Other times, he 'most always did, for that 

 striped bug gets wilder than a hawk and 

 smarter 'n a fox after you have hunted him 

 about three times. You don't more than 

 have to come around the corner of the barn 

 and he parachutes off the squash leaf and 

 just ain't anywhere any more when you ^et 

 there. He's the most disappearing liltle 

 cuss • — now-you-sce-him-and-now-you-don't 

 — that I've ever seen. Get within shouting 

 distance of him, and he'll fly. Did you ever 

 see Avhere he lit without contracting eye 

 strain? You have not. But why go on in 

 this polite way, when you can use only Root 

 parlor language about this orneriest, pro- 

 vokingest, dingdanged meanest bug that 

 roams the garden? No use. It doesn't 

 satisfy. But I tell it to him (the bug) to 

 his face right when I get him between my 

 thumb and forefinger first joint. Oh, I do 

 tell him ! But — I am losing the thread of 

 this argument. I was saying that " Uncle 

 Amos " and I were using clusts, poisons, and 

 fingers and thumbs on this miscreant — his 

 bugship getting most of the vines and we 

 getting all the work and most of the anguish 

 of spirit. Things were running along this 

 way, with the bugs generally having a ma- 

 jority, when early one morning a few days 

 ago " Uncle Amos," all aglow, entered the 

 palatial journalistic parlors where I toil 

 from early morn till dewy eve for kopeks 

 and grub, and said that he had got it now 

 for sure. I didn't know just what he had 

 got, for he miglit have had 'most anything 

 from the way he acted, so I asked him. He 

 had a sure cure for squash bugs — cateh'em, 

 pinch'em into the great beyond, and place 

 their still quivering mortal remains promi- 

 nently on a leaf, about one erstwhile squash- 

 bug to a leaf. The deceased bug was just 

 to lie up there conspicuously dead and scare 

 the liver, lights, and lungs out of every live 

 bug that came in siglit. Well, everybody 

 shook hands, the otlfice cat began purring as 

 of old, and it seemed a cheerful world again. 

 I hastened home that noon and evening, 

 neglected my family and every other duty, 

 and dove for tlie garden. Once there, I ran 

 walked, scooched down, crawled, dug, came 

 up from behind on 'em, advanced on the 

 flank and right obliqued on the port side of 

 'em, balanced, forwarded and backed — and 

 altogether mighty nearly mit the final bing- 

 er on myself getting 17 bugs — about one 

 bug cadaver for every 12 squash leaves that 

 the bugs had left intact. But I put squashed 

 squash bugs on the most conspicuous leaves 

 and then I went to the liouse, enjoying 

 to the full a sense of duty done and victory 

 won. I told my wife so. I played with the 



