THE MOSQUITO.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 1 April 1884, Page 2

THE MOSQUITO.

Viewed through the microscopo the mosquito presents a picture of mechanical ingenuity as marvellous in execution as it is devilish in design. In the bill alone,..which seems so fragile to the unaided.sight, there is a combination of. five distinct surgical instruments, ' These are, a knife, two meat saws, and a suction pump. The fifth instrument I have forgotten, but labor under the impression that it is a portable Corliss engine to run the rest of the factory with, I know that'the huni of the mosquitoes in the cotton-wood,thicket along the lower Mississippi reminded me constantly of the hum of a manufacturing village, and several times I walked back several miles looking' for a town before I could convince myself, that the buzzing I heard was made by mosquitoes with their saws. When .the insects operate on. a man the lance is first pushed into the flesh, then the two saws, placed back to ;.back begin to work up and down to enlarge the hole, then the, pump is inserted, and victim's blood is syphoned up to the reservoirs carried behind, and final!?,' to complete the cruelty of the performance, the wretch drops a quantity of poison into the wound to keep it irritated,—Forest and Stream, ,