Show JUST A GENERAL NUISANCE oat smudge or oat louse one of the most annoying small things in the universe the oat louse has no wings and yet it flies through the air borne on the gentle breezes which watt waft over the fields it has no legs and yet it adheres to the flesh of nan man with a devotion that Is inspiring some persons call it the oat smudge but most per sons call it by some harder name A fine way to accumulate the tribe Is to take a trolley trip near fields fielde where tho the honest husbandman has been garnering tits his crops there the oat lice which are about the size of 0 overgrown black fleas fill the air quite numerously after such a ride they can bo be found adhering to the arms and face with a small sprinkling down the neck at heart they are innocent young things neither biting nor stinging and yet because of their peculiar rolling motion they are arc ticklish little devils so people shake shaka them off ff the particular niche in nature filled by out oat lice Is not quite clear so it Is quite reasonable to assume that they havo have been set apart to offset the manifold joys of the suburbanite |