Healthy living . eirscoutmaster or parents or teachers where the troublelies, the breeding places can often be done away withand the whole neighborhood made pleasanter and saferto live in. An Evening Talk.—One evening in midsummerMrs. Mosquito was sitting on the wall of the barn,just under the eaves where it is warm and at once there was a great buzzing, and Mrs. Flycame flying along and settled down beside her, verymuch hurried and out of breath. Good evening, my dear. You seem a little flus-tered, she said to the newcomer politely, Is any-thing the matter? Everything is the matt
Healthy living . eirscoutmaster or parents or teachers where the troublelies, the breeding places can often be done away withand the whole neighborhood made pleasanter and saferto live in. An Evening Talk.—One evening in midsummerMrs. Mosquito was sitting on the wall of the barn,just under the eaves where it is warm and at once there was a great buzzing, and Mrs. Flycame flying along and settled down beside her, verymuch hurried and out of breath. Good evening, my dear. You seem a little flus-tered, she said to the newcomer politely, Is any-thing the matter? Everything is the matter, indeed, replied Mrs. Flyin a tone of bitter disgust. I have just been chasedout of the house by a little girl with a fly-killer. I dontmind that so much, because she never could get nearme. I took care of that. But inside the house everysingle bit of food was covered so that I could get nothingto eat. The lid was on the sugar bowl and a napkinover the top of the cream pitcher. SOME UNDESIRABLE NEIGHBORS 191. Its too bad, answeredfeelingly. I have hada hard time, too. Ihave been looking allday for a good placeto lay my eggs so thatmy babies could growup happily, and if youwill believe it, I couldnot find a single swamp behind the j^. ,^ ,., ,,, ,^ ^ Fig. 72.—Mrs. Fly and Mrs. Mosquito barn has been drained, decide that CleanviUe is no place and there is a tight for on the rain barrel, and these wretched Boy Scoutshave even taken away the old tins by the fence at theend of the orchard, which used to be full of water afterevery rain. Life is very difficult nowadays. Yes, and its all the fault of those same Boy Scouts,broke in her friend, still bursting with found some of my brothers and sisters feeding quietly and peaceablyin the manure told their fatherabout it, and now hekeeps the manure ina tight bin. Andthey have cleaned upthe rubbish pile atthe end of the gar-
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