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Show Waste Not. Near Tom Linkins' house was a swamp which was a breeding place fot mosquitoes. Some enterprising neighbors, neigh-bors, who liad learned of the eruda oil treatment, went to Tom and tried to persuade him to exterminate the pests. "Exterminate 'em?" cried Tom. "Not much. Not much. Why, the missus an' I just paid $42 for screening the sida piazzer that she's been pesterln' rat about for years. How are we goin' tg get an good out of It If we kill off th keeters?" Harper's Magazine. |