Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-03
O6e AaiGg aunpttaG,
THE FUNNY CORNER
Stealings from Harpers' Editors
s,5l5'o eT ba4 g D Drawer.
a MUsKEFo STORY.

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The musketoes down on the Mississip-
pi river are supposed to be rather large,
and tolerably ferocious | am not pre-
pared to believe the story of the man
who came to look for his COW one day,
and found the skeleton on the ground
and large musketo on an adjacent tree
picking his teeth with one of the horns
But viii say that 1t would take man
gifted with considerable imagination to
exaggerate the proves of those South
ern swamp musketoes. We were dis
cussing them one night in hotel in New
Orleans, when one gentleman of the
party told the following anecdote:
There was once man in the city
who insisted on it that he was musketo-
proof, and who offered to lie down in the
worst place that could be found and let
musketoes bite him an hour for ten dol
lars. My friend hearing him make the
proposition took him at his word, and
with several others they both started off
for q nice marshy place between the
town and Lake Ponchartrain-a regular
musketo paradise. Arriving on the spot
the musketo chap took off his shirt and
coat, and lay down on his face The
insects came down in crowds, lighted on
his back, and biting commenced. If the
man scratched he would lose his ten dol
lars; even sqGiFmiBg was prohibited
But he stood it like Trojan; didn't
give utteranee to single grunt Half
an hour passed The ground all around
was covered with gorged musketoes, who
sucked until they were as drunk as
Judges, and were staggering about in a
most disereditable style. A quarter Of
an hour ensued; more intoxicated suck
ers, and the man as unmoved and indif
ferent as log. Suddenly one of the
gentlemen took two or three strong puff:
at his cigar, and then chucked it on the
musketo chaps back First he WINGED
then he squirmed, then he yelled ant
scrambled up. ..e-.-.---
al have come across considerable
number of musketoes in my life, he re
marked, scratching with one hand ant
working into his shirt at the same time
but j assure you, gentlemen, l neye
see musketo like that before Fl
wasn't much to hum, gentlemen, he con
tinued; but when it comes to biting
gentlemen, that mosquito was a shorter
He lost his ten dollars, and wen
home grumbling that when he made tina
ar bet he hadn't calculated on no bun
bic bees bein' smuggled in.
IN THE WRONG STATE.
In the good old times before the wa
writes friend in the lower regions, tn
candidates for Office in this souther
country were accustomed. to resort
strange lodges to coneiliate the peopl
and get their votes. One of them, in Il
Old Dominion, while stumping the on
skirts of his district, came early on
morning upon a clearing where a so
tary man was -hoeing. Aighting fro
his horse, he took an extra hoe standir
by, and commenced working very vigo
ously, at the same time delicately hiI
ing who he was, and for what purpo
he had come The man, howeve
was obtuse, not seeming conscious
his visitors design till just as the 81
was sinking beneath the horizon, wht
he Eaddenly frightened up and said:
"Wa'al, reckon you're mighty got
at hoein' and if I was only over in o
Virginny I'd vote for you"
The dismayed politician did not
the grass grow under his horses feet
he was safely out of North Carolin
where he had labored hard all day
naught -~.-