. Highways and byways of the South. d said sarcastically: No, theyre a curiosityin Miami. Youll find plenty of em, though, in thenext town up the coast and the next town below. Thats so, added another man. Its the sameall over Florida — whatever place you go to thepeople 11 swear they dont have any mosquitoes there ;yet theyll acknowledge to their being all around. Fve been driving sometimes, said the first man, and in the swampy places the mosquitoes would lightso thick on my horse you couldnt a told what colorit was ; and Fve been at farm-houses to dinner wherethered be so much of a smudge m
. Highways and byways of the South. d said sarcastically: No, theyre a curiosityin Miami. Youll find plenty of em, though, in thenext town up the coast and the next town below. Thats so, added another man. Its the sameall over Florida — whatever place you go to thepeople 11 swear they dont have any mosquitoes there ;yet theyll acknowledge to their being all around. Fve been driving sometimes, said the first man, and in the swampy places the mosquitoes would lightso thick on my horse you couldnt a told what colorit was ; and Fve been at farm-houses to dinner wherethered be so much of a smudge made to drive the Spring on the Florida Coast II mosquitoes out that I couldnt see the persons sittingacross the table from me. I dont know what weddo without smudges during August and September. How do you make a smudge ? I asked. Its easy done, was the reply. You only needto set fire to some rags that you have sprinkled witha little water so theyll burn slow. Theres timeswhen youll see the nigger wenches washing clothes in cc C(. A Colored Truck Farmer 12 Highways and Byways of the South the yards and a line of smudge around em on theground. Ive heard, remarked the second man, that overon the islands they have to put overalls on their mulesto protect em from the mosquitoes. Those islands are terrible places for mosquitoes,affirmed the landlord. Ive known the farmers thereto bring their hogs and chickens over to the mainlandto keep the mosquitoes from killing em ; and when agang of men is at work there, setting out pineapples,one man 11 walk along to windward carryin a smudge. Another member of the company took up the sub-ject and remarked : I had some experience in a placeI was stopping at one time. The mosquitoes werebound to follow a person everywhere, and I had a niggeralong with me, and when I was goin in to the hotel, hedtake a palmetto leaf and whisk em all off. Then hedsay, * Ready ! and throw open the door and shout,Jump! and in Id go, and hed slam the door afterme.
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