New-York tribune., 1876-09-02
MOSQUITOES OF DODGEVILLE.
HOW ITS INHABITANTS LEssESED THE HAPPINESS
OF SOME CITY POLK.

HOW ITS ISuABrTASrs LEssESED THE HAPPINESS
OF SOME CITY POLK.
To the Bdffor OF The Tribune.
SIR: Many thanks for your editorial concern
ing mosquitoes We weappreea:ed It most heartily. since
We are spending the Sumner in small country neigh
borhood, and have had enough experience OF winged
pest and human imitaor. Leaving town after hard
winters work tine old farmhouse seemed most delight
fl refuge for the long hot Summer We did not nind
hard or r carpet. the blue paper curtains on
shutteress windows Everything was rosc-colored
though We cot up with the SUM- lived rye bread
"boiIcd dish" and the most extraordinary pies that
Yankee genius could coneoct and heard from The great
BABEL We had left fut a week, when the drivers
hor1 blew behind the hills, aud his rcl'ey old stage
crenKoi UP the one street OF Dodgeylle We explored
the country side for miles around bringing home large
punches OF the lovely Spring flowers. that their iresh
sweet odors might Danish tho dismal must from
the longelosod settin ROOM, much to the smazeDent
Of our specialized landlady. who waterod her horrible
hydrangeas with great compacoucy but regarded ali the
fair wild growth blows" and would none otiL We
climbed countless high rocky pastures for azacas and
confronted all manner Of snakes In the deep woods where
we sought the dainty, no lady laurel The June days
were long and bright aud from tho village graveyard we
watched nrht after night rarely beautiful sunsets Be
fore the rSt water lilies opened their cream white buds
far up the lake singing, whLkng tornenior aDi
Itaiias bsSe nsht hang unheeded the far hills no
mind which the moon dropped down the ssy should
azc with gold md scarlet soften 70 ana pale
,,repn ~ Il thc grow cold and lfelrss but touched
not palette pea. sitting sUky behind our sting net
ting. -. A.. 81, .
tnuOus hun aud sight sting; 40 was u tre that Mrs
A. objected To our habt oi lying under the trees as
shess :" that Mis- II. cr0ssqucsi 0ncd Madame our
hostess, only too ready 20 answer as TO our
encc oi living. aud general an'ecedcuts aud ar
& pronounced iuldci-, bccarst f,ed 70 at.Cnd on
his nnlstratons time the cracked bell rang out lts
Unfortunate SUMMONS. We did not care We aSsdred
ourselves that neither sing nor ,cia was w ni s so
sequence IN eyes trained Ia better ways OF tiink
ling. We could aaJrd 20 caimy PiV tue T~ttloie ~
souls that tfctica over such shisIt HnhOya ahc
a. 1t IL true that tribes make perfection, ana
perfection tre" toe saying rs equally true Of nap
shaken hy The tribes" we had resolved not to notice
even IA Thought the lovcest Toselushod sunse. was
sang round oar e1aspegated ears. and ~ while We took
our afternoon scsta under the big maple couple OF sun
happened that realized at length our impairment
meddlers losing all the sweet influences oi The summer
| hour In our yeXatiOn Undigniho1, but after all,
| natural II copper cent held before your
eyes excludes sea and land, to lose sight
merry haryesters are f comments acrid and fitting
on the queer ways and luny" d9lngs OF townsGlk I
above petty gossip decline hearing retailing the
nrsarhed this good doctrine and faln would initiated
eyes other dc OF the shield Can VIC not have an
editorial sharp and decisive the right OF unfortunate
civ fok TO fe liberty, aud tho pursuit OF happiness
when they leave brick walls for season to walk In green
J feldsi When Rusticus walks down broadway, taking
always the wrong side staring wildly IN at windows and
in general announcing his rnray, that ne who runs
may read we pass him by with look nod tnai snall
proclaim him codhOpper Why then. not the tables
BE turned, that In our turn may roam the nigh
hin pastures and do whatever commonplace or unlter-
estig thing we may choose, without the certainty that
we sau presently hear OF IL again and again. and many
times again. unril weary OF our lives for tho
danght RS of Dodgevlle Give then, the requisite
two columns that snbonnes and oyeras may read and
take warming time the stage ln aud all Dodge
VILE is gathered together ut The Store nineteenth CEN
tury yehme Gericht to judge and condemn lhe nnwary
Doageciile, Aug 2s, 1875.