. St. Nicholas [serial]. S anybody knows, who has sleptwith a mosquito in the room,it is not always the largestbodies that can make the mostdisturbance. Consequently,when I tell you that the trailinto Wilderness House randown, for a moment, by the Haunted Swamp,and that it was the most interestingly terrifyingplace in all the wide wonderland of Wildyrie, youmust not jump to the conclusion that its darkrecesses hid three-headed hobgoblins or that thedeep, still waters were the home-lairs of fire-eating ghosts. There were creatures in theHaunted Swamp far worse than these. For aghost, you know,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. S anybody knows, who has sleptwith a mosquito in the room,it is not always the largestbodies that can make the mostdisturbance. Consequently,when I tell you that the trailinto Wilderness House randown, for a moment, by the Haunted Swamp,and that it was the most interestingly terrifyingplace in all the wide wonderland of Wildyrie, youmust not jump to the conclusion that its darkrecesses hid three-headed hobgoblins or that thedeep, still waters were the home-lairs of fire-eating ghosts. There were creatures in theHaunted Swamp far worse than these. For aghost, you know, can be mortified and even putto flight by your refusing to believe in it, and athree-headed hobgoblin, naturally, can bite onlyone third as hard as the one-mouthed gnat andis not nearly so distressing as the No-See-Ums,whose jaws resemble an alligators—when highlymagnified. Such creatures as these, and worse, infected thebeautiful swamp from the first of June until themiddle of July. Essex Lad and I had learned fromPru
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