Show Downfall of the Mosquiii Did It ever strike you that a mosquito I mos-quito could become an Inebriate asked tho observer of things It hasnt Well let me tell you one of my experiences I was working in New Orleans several years ago with a friend of mine Ho was a hard drinker drink-er and whenever you saw him he was literally saturated with booze He was a clever little fellow though and I for several months he worked In the same office with me Wo did considerable consid-erable night work Well every night Ed would come in drunk as a boiled owl sit down at his desk and begin to peg away Whether It was because he was the booze artist In tho office or from Borne other cause his desk was a mecca for the mosquitoes There was ono big fellow I noticed particularly He attracted my atten tion one evening when Ed was asleep In his chair and he the mosquito lib was perched on my friends nose dr holo ing away for dear life Pretty I ti ho became even drunker than EdM gem flew away Ho perched on the de agl where I was writing and his and r were comical Ho had a beauW gi load If youll pardon the strce P > to ins language and war swagge Cl over tho desk like a chic Ken with It n I Cltl i staggers Honestly I onldnt he tl4t tht laughing I caught the mosquito 4t t pulled off just the tip o his win1 Ot I would know him again I saw hi lta again the next and man night the ae after Ed was the only man In t1 ten office hed bite If Ed ddnt + shown I dt tr tho mosquito would perm on his assuming n mournful ntttmle that J tm Th ° ° pitiful and laughable Iv l i one was ono mosquito who became IBfW ale of W ebrlate and I could tell you his listeners had bled to the fl Ing station across tine street 1 |