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Show LEECHES AND LEMON8. The Latter a Cure for the Former In Ceylon. "Wlicrover yoii go, in Ceylon," said tho sailor, "you always carry a lemon with you. For punch? No, air; not for punch. For leeches. "They ain't merely wntor leeches In Ceylon: they're land leeches, too. Thoao blood suckers hang on to bushes and trees; they lurk In tho grass, waltln' for you. Tho averago size before dinner Is only about bait an inch long and no thicker than a hair you might say Invisible. Thoy easily work their way through tho thread ol four stockings aud underwear. under-wear. Aftor dinner they're as fat as your finger. "Wherever you go the leeches proy on you. I was dressed in whlto ono night.' rldtn' with a beautiful Coylon girl, when I saw a red streak on my whlto pants below the kneo. Ex- custn' myself hastily, I retired. It was a leech, of course, dlnln' with mo uninvited. "Tho only way to get them off with, out breakln' them and leavln' their hoads Insldo you is to squeeze a few drops ot lemon on them, tho same as If 'they was raw oysters. That paralyzes par-alyzes them and thoy fall to tho ground llko rlpo fruit. Every two or three minutes you see tho Ceylon-eso Ceylon-eso stop, take out a lemon and anoint carefully tho half dozen loeches stuck in a black mass to tho calf ot tho leg. "Tho averago Ceylon loech was, I . said, half an Inch long. Yot there's! some full throV Inches long that can Jump, by crinus, that jump on you frc-i tho bushes ns you pass by. 'Vjiinds dooblous, don't It? nut what can bo dooblous In a land wh'oro thoy havo blrd-catchln' spldors and centipedes a foot long?" |