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so she is drowned in the very clenieiit which til 

 now was the only 

 place where she 

 conld support ex- 

 istence. 



And here 1 must 

 sav a word in 

 favour of the male 

 as against the 

 female mosquito. 

 In most species, 

 and certainly in 

 the couunonest 

 British j^nat, the 

 male tly never 

 sucks bU)od at 

 all, but passes 

 an idyllic vege- 

 tarian existence, 

 which mij^ht ex- 

 cite the warmest 

 praise from Mr. 

 liernard Shaw, in 

 sippinj; the harm- 

 less nectar of 

 flowers. He has, 

 in point ot tact, 

 no weapon to 

 attack us with. 

 He is an unarmed 

 honey - sucker. 

 But the female is very differently minded 



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