The Newtown bee., 1909-01-22

BUG, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE Al WATER BUG IN THE FARM
 FRS STOCKING.
 While visiting some of his friends in
 the city, one day last week, the Farm
 CT was cautioned to look out for the
 bugs. It is customary with him when
 away from home 10 retire to his bed
 early on account of the many visits he
 has to make next day. Being partly i tired out from the excitement and the
 strain that the Christmas holidays put
 on that mettled nerve of his he decided
 to visit Sunny Side before retiring. Now as a matter of fact the location
 of Sunny Side Is in East Bridgeport
 and in close connection with New Field
 avenue, where the Farmer generally
 pays his respects while staying in.sthe city.
 After entering the home of his host
 he decided to try some of the Bridge port water. Going to the water faucet
 he drew a glass of water and drank part of it and poured the remainder in to the water pipe, which would not let it out. His hostess assured him that it must be all right as the water run freely few days before she left home.
 (As she had only come back from wis., it to the country that same evening.) The Farmer came to the conclusion that the water was froze in the pipe and recommended that some salt and hot water be poured down the water pipe to thaw it out.
 Now the Farmer does not want to make a fish story or long story either, but the way them bugs crawled up through that water pipe after receiving a dose of salt and water was mys- tery to him. and he was astonished at the. way they made their escape under carpets and into closets. It did not
 take him long to. find his room and get to bed, while the jovial hostess stood at the sink ip merry fit of laughter. Disroting and carefully putting out the light in his room he was soon asleep. No noise from the trolley car or no noise from the compressed ar plant at the Tubular Stamping Co.'s could wake him, until the sound of milkman's voice was heard at 4.3O a. m., hollering out Fresh milk at eight cents per quart" That sound and the price of milk awoke the Farmer, and this is where the bug business comes in.
 Aa there would not be a full tide un- til GAO, he decided to have another nap, when to his surprise he found the bed clothes move. Then he thought about the bugs of the previous evening. Turning on the light he witnessed sight of bugs that he never will for get. They were in different colors and different sizes and amongst them he noticed some potato bugs. The pres ence of the potato bug, he says, he cannot account for. As to the others, they are raised in the city. Donning his apparel as hastily as he could he missed one of his socks, tor stockings) and instituted a search for it but to no purpose. Not being familiar with the manners and ways of the bugs he woke up his hostess and told his tale of woe. She, with her husband, went to his room to look for the missing stocking, and on entering, to their surprise there was the stocking under the bed rolling around. Nothing daunted. the Farmer crawled under the bed and pulled out living lump of humanity (as he called it) and on opening the mouth of the stocking out jumped one of the largest water bugs that has been seen in the city since 1892. The mysterious way in which those bugs got into hls sleep ing apartment can be accounted for, is that in thawing out the water pipes, that evening, that instead of it being frozen it was checked up with water bugs that made their way from the city mains, and as the water faucets in that house were not used for asas.few days, when the hot water and salt was poured down the waste pipe it drove the bugs out. AS the farmer on retir- ing that evening left his bed room door open, the bugs walked up stairs and took possession of his room while he was asleep.
 That as it may be the Farmer does l not want to see any more bugs until next July, and then if they should hap l pen to come aroundato bother his pota- to vines, it will not be with salt and 1