Mosquitos are tolerably large and somewhat ferocious in the Mississippi country. A man who went out one day to look after his cow found her skeleton on the grouud, and a large mosquito on an adjacent tree picking his teeth with one of her horns.
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Southland Times, Issue 599, 3 December 1866, Page 2
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45Untitled Southland Times, Issue 599, 3 December 1866, Page 2
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