Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1890-08-27
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sorrespoZseng u the Nsw YORK ii@es- +
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tgrnesl homsEard- TIE bat tossed Lst- I
IL and tie calm showed no s-gns q "A +
sszkening. Various stories h2d besn
toid-sEories q sharks AID sAipsrecz, q
saeer nsa a-a strange storuzs--s tories 50
wonderful a. - raise honest eoao,s 4nd
provoke sarcastic comments. TIE cap
t4iu. gru1. conEsm piatlvs AID tseirnrn,
~zs s,ienk Presently be spoke-spoke
with grave and serious 1eiioe-Ation that
dissTmed suspicion and compelled stSen-
lion.
'sIou said something abou, mosqri-
toes he began They're curious or T. .
tiers. Sometimes people Ike 'em and
sometimes they doat. Sometimes mos
9uitoes Ike people and sometimes they
eoat. 1 ike mosquitoes, bat theY don't
like ne. IheY never bother rae az all
II makes no difference how thick they
ar they let ne sione-all except one,
snd I wait % tell you about him.
course makes me GET up early. Mosa
always Z can wake up right on thu
u.nute if / uish i. done the night before
an2 kina o tx is On ny nina. But -
make sure I got an alarm clock. set
it at Eve o'clock ovcry morning, and
+ regular as the sun ! woke. The clock
lasted ell right from March 70 the lst
OF July. but something went wrong and
/ the alarm part Of her busted. couldn't
gef her fixed, So 7 had % 90 back 70 tho
Oh plan OF writing 10 down on paper.
swell. gentlemen, the next morning
exactly at FIVE o'clock q mosquito liz on
the end OF my nose and woke me az.
( He dit 10 again the next morning, ana
/ the next and the next, and 50 on for two
weeks. lie was always prompt. Then
+ J found that 7 had TO get NJ at four
! o'clock one morning. I put it down on
/ the paper and he woke me on the dot
During tho week changed my hour for
+ getting up every morning, and each
time tho mosquito vas on hand. But
the next Monday, when / wrote three
/ o'clock on tho paper something hap
/ pcned. overslept myself. II was $50
Z N+H-A 4 tMOANr Jun - Va" Va A~N-
/ and there on the table | saw something
+ added 70 what had written. 1t was in
blood, and this is the way it read: 4
would like very much to servo you, but
as your hours arc becoming too irre-u-
; lar for any self-respecting mosquito, [
am obliged 70 tender 70 you my resigns-
ton That was all"
1T was enough" said soma one.
BAT tell Us, did you ever see your friend
again"
'One cold winter night, when the
snow was coming down by wholesale"
continued the captain, more deliberately
than ever, Il heard n curiously-familiar
noise and I went TO the door. There in
the corner of the yard | could see
through the binding flakes a huge
drift. growing larger each minute" The
captain paused.
WAS your mosquito in the drift?"
asked voice from tho other end of the
boat.
That's something that I've never
been able TO find out" replied the cap
tain, and with 2 grim smile he resumed
his usual occupation Of scanning the
horizon.
There was a silence for a moment as
depressing as the calm, but the first
mate finally broke it.
There used 70 be a great many mos
quitoes down along the Chesapeake" he
said; millions and billions more than
we have now. They went in swarms so
big as 70 seem like clouds and to shut
out the sunshine. Early one summer
morning . good many years ago Q feet
OF schooners decked in flags and with
the blue uniforms OF tho crews strung
ont on the decks TO dry sailed in tho
capes Suddenly there came two dense
swaruls OF mosquitoes. They made for
tho vessels, completely hiding them
from view. IN few minutes they few
away. leaving the feet a. bare as an
OAK woods IN December. Not a piece OF
tho sails, not a strand of the uniforms,
not shred OF the Tags was lcft-all
were gone"
Nobody knew what became OF them, "
he continued, "until two days after
ward. when crowd 81 Eastern Shore
men were scared speeches. by seeing a
lot OF dude mosquitoes dressed IN blue
trousers and canvas coats"
What became OF tho fa-s7" asked
the curious voicc fsom TIC bow
"Oh. they divided thom up and used
them for ncckties," he sid
We asked tho captain what be thought
% this Ito took bis oyc OF the horizon
and responded. with his usual doiibera-
ton. "As man Of truth. il strikes mo
q Being a trice exaggerated