That, Judge, is the place for black flies and mosquitoes in June.

The medical staff relate with delight how a British doctor, sent by the Indian Government to study their methods, being left to himself for half an hour, succeeded in catching quite a number of mosquitoes of a very noxious kind within the mosquito-proof precincts of a hospital ward.

"But before he took the train with you," murmured the mosquito to the butterfly, "when he said the General was going to take Irby upon his staff and give the battery to Kincaid, what did you talk of?" "Talk of?

But unless you have something better to substitute, all you have done is to make room for a new set of rascals,a new swarm of mosquitoes with fresh appetites and larger capacities.

This is not so much on account of mosquitoes as because of the small saurian reptiles that abound in such places.

It was astonishing to find so few mosquitoes on these marshes.

This department is subdivided into the health department, which has charge of the hospitals, supervision of health matters in Panama and Colon, and of the quarantine, and into the sanitary inspection department, which looks after the destruction of the mosquito by various methods, by grass and brush cutting, the draining of various swampy areas, and the oiling of unavoidable pools and stagnant streams.

The boards were cracked and dirty; burned matches and cigar ends were scattered about, and a skeleton, gauze covered door that shut with a powerful spring kept some of the flies and mosquitoes out of the hotel.

There are many places where one only sees a mosquito for three months of the year, the soil is very fertile, and labour not only willing and efficient, but also very cheap.

The only worry he had had was to keep the mosquitoes from eating him up.

" Weld, in his "Travels in America," published that "General Washington told me that he never was so much annoyed by the mosquitos in any part of America as in Skenesborough, for that they used to bite through the thickest boot."

Extraordinary to relate, there were no mosquitoes at the ranch; why I cannot say, as they ought to swarm in these vast "pantanals," or swamps.

Mere fleabites they were; but fleas have often kept me awake a whole night in a Turkish caravanserai, and half-a-dozen mosquitos inside an Indian tent have broken up the sleep earned on a long day's march or a sharply contested battlefield.

By George, that slug brushed a mosquito off me!" "And one of the donkeys is hit.

But there were many mosquitoes over the water, so that he was unable to sleep.

There were a few piums and gnats, and a few mosquitoes after dark, but not enough to make us uncomfortable.