Show downfall of the mosquito did it ever strike you that a mos quito could become an inebriate asked the observer of things it well let me tell you one of experiences I 1 was working in new orleans several years ago with a friend of mine he was a hard drink er and whenever you saw him be was literally saturated with booze he was a clever little fellow though and tor several months he worked in the same office with me we did 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 her it was because be was the booze artist in the office or from some other cause his desk was a mecca for the mosquitoes there was one big fellow I 1 noticed particularly he attracted my atten alon one evening when ed was asleep in his chair and he the mosquito was perched on my friend s nose drill ing away tor dear life pretty soon he became even drunker than ed and flew away he perched on the desk where I 1 waa writing and his antics were comical he had a beautiful load you 11 pardon the street gam ins language and was swaggering over the desk like a chicken with the staggers honestly I 1 help laughing I 1 caught the mosquito and pulled off just the tip of his wing so I 1 would know him again I 1 saw him again the next and many night thereafter ed was the only man in tho office bed bite it ed didrik show up the mosquito would perch on his desk assuming a mournful attitude that was pitiful and laughable in one that was one mosquito who became an in and I 1 could tell you of but his listeners had hied to the life sav ing station across the street |