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hatch a very minute worm, that will borough in the 

 flesh, and make a bad sore. These eggs are de- 

 posited by the chigoe or jigger, which is about the 

 size of a flea, and belongs to the same tribe. After 

 having removed the pestiferous nest, fill the cavity 

 with cigar ashes or fine tobacco, and then stick a 

 piece of court plaster over it, and it will soon be 

 well. There is another insect, and probably of the 

 same species, that deposits an egg that becomes a 

 maggot half an inch long, and is often found on 

 laborers, deep in the flesh, but always leaving an 

 external opening, out of which it will often project 

 its black head, and look at you, especially if spirits 

 of turpentine, which is the best remedy for them, has 

 been ejected into its habitation. 



After having finished this examination, and sat- 

 isfied yourself that the intruders are all disposed of, 

 and resorted to the bed, a musketoe, that you have 

 not been sufficiently careful to keep outside the bar, 

 will appear, evidently indulging the absurd idea that 

 you may be lulled to sleep by his music, and then 

 quietly take his evening meal. These pests are not 

 very numerous, but exceedingly fond of the blood 

 of a white man; and knowing this, you resolve on 

 his extermination, which being effected, you finally 

 fall to sleep, thinking that, after all, man is some- 

 times exceedingly troubled with very little things. 





