Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-07
MOSQUITOES
A HlHle's Experience 10 the Mississippi
SHamH.


Edjtlas ltg TIE ADDsG5-I'd bin hear
in people talk er1Cut the Missippi
bottom all my life; had alters hearn il
was the greatest place in the world,
fur eny body TO 90 70, TO make money,
specially er young man. Some sed
you could 20 thar an make frum er
bale az er han ter tn bales Nv Gotten,
and frum fifty to seventy-6ve bushels
Nv corn. 20 the aker; an that il
wouldn't take nigh as much work to
make ID as IL would to make h8ff that
much in the hills. In fack, every body
give it the name Nv the 'Elderady NV
AmeriCky."
BeiU' iist arriv at the age Nv man
hood, an belu' what 1 considered er
man Nv purity good jugement an er
good deal Nv energy, i concluded I'd
Jest 60 an try il one year, and see how
1 liked II, beIn purity well satisfied
lhaJ I had uUrve er nuf ter stan the
uuskeeters and JufalO-nats. that
everybody sed was purity thick down
thar; an then, If liked il purity well
arter stayiu one year, I'd lest cum
back an make my rangements acordin,
aud settle down Prominently in one
o. them cainDrakes, and stay thsr till
] made my fortune.
So, last winter WIS er year er 20, I
went down to the bottom in DeSOtO
county, an got in with or man to
make er crop. He was ter furnish
teen, an tules, an board me; an 1 was
ter feed his stock, ter pay fer my
board, az cultivate the land an gather
the crop, an give him haf I made.
So went 20 work erbOut the fust
NV Il 5uW8Ty, an got er long purity
well fur a good while. But erbOUt the
fust NV April the everiastin muskee-
tiers that i mad hearn 50 much erbOut,
set I'm in earnest. At fust I thought I
wouldn't miud Um much. but I'll Der
darnd If they didn't keep gettin WUss.
uilI yer couldn't see ten foot berf0re
yer. They'd git round yer so thick
that yer'd have ter neck with both
hands an then them old fellows that't
bin er liviu down thar al theF lives,
would Ian at you, just like they
thought yCu's 1ule ernuff ter hold still
an lel the cussed little varmints eet
yer uD. An darnd 81 I don't blesVe
the mUskeeters node er feller that cum
frum the hills just as well as I did, FUR
/ never seen -um er bitin them CID
H60t.0mites, - as they call therselves; F;
aJ ] est, they didn't never mock atum
none. As sune as one NV the Internal
little things would git bis cussed little
parnch full Nv 5lud, he'd drap of an
fly er long, jest like an old settiu tur-
kil-d0ve that don't want yer ter find
her nest, an then yer could kill him, [
easy ernuf, but er man can't kill una
then with er clear conscience, becOr5e
he'd be er sbedin his own blud. Err
bout two hundred thousand Nv the I
dinged little "galInipples, as sum /
foxes calls um, would bite yer, in less /
than twenty minits, sn darn ther 1
cu-sed little herts, thar wouldn't marry /
two um suck blud out Nv the same I
hole.
Wen, Td hearn that The chius was I
purity bad down thar, so, think L, the /
cniil5, in cOnueEul with these infer /
nal nuskeet5rs, viii be lest er little
more than eny real 5ensibul man, In /
Justice to his belth an feelins, Orter I
10 put up with, 50 jest give up all /
the work I'd dun, ter get of, an cum 1
rite out Of that chilly and mUskeetery I
swamp, an / think, if / keep as good |
-ence as I've got now, Tu never 90 |
back thar euy more. Darnd ef pd /
.U-e my helth an be eet up by the I
darned mUskeeters fer all the cotton /
that could be made in the bottom, j
irum Tennessee tn LUsiany.
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