SEPTEMBER NOTES 



doors we cannot keep them out of the house because 

 they come in riding on people's backs while waiting 

 for a chance to bite. And did you ever consider 

 how naturally mean the mosquito is? Not content 

 with driving its beak into a fellow it injects a poison 

 and possibly some disease germs. Of all created 

 things the mosquito is about the most useless and 

 irritating. Its snarling hum — (Slap! Whoop! Got 

 him that time and now I can talk about something 

 else.) 



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About the first sign of fall is to have the cattle 

 get into new fields. During the earlier months they 

 are confined to the pasture but as the crops are 

 taken off they are allowed a wider range. As soon 

 as they find a new field open to them they rush into 

 it as eagerly as if they were getting into mischief 

 and do not rest until they have wandered to every 

 corner. Even though the new field may offer them 

 many bits of good pasture they do not stop to 

 eat them but go around the fences and poke their 

 heads through wires to get what they can from the 

 adjoining field. The pasture they have never seems 

 to satisfy them. It is the pasture in the other field 

 that interests them. In this they are very human. 



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