The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-04
MOSQUITOES ON COLUMBUS Avrsur.

The Spicers had returned to their cityhome,
and Seth had settled himself down for q good
square sleep. with the bis Sful consciousness
that there was no train to catch the next
morning. when Mrs. 5. suddenly reared her
heed up from the pillow and ejaculatsd-
Seth"
"Knaw-r-r whish ~ was the only response
Seth, do stop snoring and wake up !" and
Mrs. ). emphasized her request with a soft
fist in her lords back.
"Whoof! Ali Yes, yes what's marrer /?
said Sp!cer, brokenly at the same time wildly
throwing out his hand and driving his part
ner's head with a dreadful thump against the
headbOard.
Ouch! You clumsy thing, why don't you
knock my head off ~ walled the lady.
voice muficd by the pillows was heard to
murmur. "'gainst the law; and suggest
wear your switch to bed"
81 wish l had a SWITCH" said Mrs. s., 6
little spitefully. "Now don't you go of to
sleep again, Seth"
Baby got stomache ache 2" inquired the
drowsy one.
NO"
Girl locked out
No"
Burglar n coal cellar ~
mo, no."
Fire over n East Boston ~
Don't he ridiculous, Seth. There's q dread
fdl mosquito in the room, and if you do moi
get up and kill him he will bite baby all over
biotches."
Tell him TO send in his bill first January
said Spicer, with a final effort to dodge the
issue.
Mrs. S .however, was inexorable, and Spices
rolled out of bed, crawled into a dressing
gown and slippers, TUNED up the gas and be-
san a search for the cunning fend, the soil
iary mosquito, who always survives his com.
panions and lays in wait to harass the unhap.
pyhouseholder sometimes far into the winter
Spicer commenced to hunt in the regulation
ranner, by walking about the room with Q
towel in his hand and his eyes fixed upon the
ceiling. At the third stride he trod upon the
rocking chair, which responded promptly
with q blow in the stomach that left him nc
wind to swear with. As he Strengthened up
his eye caught sight of an insect over the
water fixture, and, staggering toward it, he
dealt q blow that would have felled an OK. but
as thore was no; an OK there he only smashed
q china mug and a soap dish. Here the baby
woke up, and joined in the exercises with o
dismal howl and Mrs. Spicer remarked that
she did not see, for the life of her, why a man
who was SO near-sighted that he couldn't see
across the room dill not put on his glasses
before he smashed all the chamber furniture
anu Nohe up the uOuse-
Seth made no reply, but the manner in
which he settled his eye glasses on his nose
and gripped the towel indicated that if the
mosquito had been M elephant he would not
have quailed before him then. He searched
the ceiling carefully again, squinted behind
the h~eadboard, looked under the bed and into
the closet, behind the door and along the
%mopboard, at the mirror and on the window
curtain, at the ceiling for the sixteenth time
and there, quietly hanging by his long legs,
was his tormentor. The injured man warily
drew a chair under the spot.
at isn't high enough murmured Mrs. s.,
in a whisper of horrible suspense.
Seth added the baby armchair, but still the
hated insect was beyond reach. The has
sock was piled upon the armchair; the hun
ter mounted the ticklish ediice, poised him
sf.f like Blondin a moment onlthe top, there
was a terrible blow, a bloody spot upon the
wall, a dreadful crash and some frightful re-
marks, which Mrs. S. heard in shuddering
silence. Then the head of the house limped
oil to the spare room" Mrs. S. sang the
mothers refrain of there, there, there for
an hour, and peace was upon that house.
The next morning the boys said the Office
,ould not have smelt worse of arnica if the old
man had played n baseball match the day
before.-COm. Bulletin.