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PASSING OF THE MOSQUITO, sarisin," than I shall bave my
:
AN INDIAN DIALOGUE
chanon. I can wait,” she shrilled vindictively.
I can bite through the meshen. at your wretched surtain,” She (axited away into the hot drowsy night bit was back again in an instant
Do You Prefer
A Times correspondent writers The brown and khaki p in spread away on all sides, mi b. south, east, and west, far as thè
"What are you afraid of a candles, and lampa or a. patrol gaa eye could son, varied saldons by tiny prick--a droplet of blood—?""}]} systoṁ thát blows up from time to time, patches, of field or small mud-
“Nay, madam, it is not that. walled villagas, and, hare and It is malaria, those curved pro- there, & dome of thick tree-topa. torna, which are the teachery in For it was India, the India of your kisses, those undiscovered distances and unbroken beings which through all the horizons, where gen may see centuries namade empires. It often a single palm rising tall and was yon destroyed ancient straight three miles away,
Greece. It was you caused the abandonment of great esties. It has
Vast
But here there was one break. for hard by the dak bungalow,
been jou that has with its dry, dusty compound and kept Inviolate those low stucco wall, there lay the tropic wastes and, denied their bed of a rivershining yellow with riches to the battermant sand dotted with vivid green of man. But your reign is over. patches, where some enterprising We have found you out, we villagers ready to hazard doctors working against prejudice gamble with Nature had and derision, as pioneers always taken advantage of the mois must. It is our indictment of you ture :0 scratch the soil that is leading to the regeneration and saw temerarious crops of of the waste places of the earth. wheat. A trickle of moisture (that is making room and food for ran in among the sandbanks and the swelling population of the gathered in small pools, wheraby|world, and lito possible for the the white paddy birds stratted generations get to come." and packed like snowilakes on a billiard table.
It was evening time, and the hush of evening had fallen more vast and more ample in propor- tion as India is more vast and
A PIONEER'S LOT. "You must have done well out of it," she sneered.
1
"There you are mistaken. We were the pioneers, and pioneers ample than other lands. Aget nothing—it is one of the laws solitary bullock-car; was coming of life. The trader goes where down the long stretch of road WA have made it possible that ran past the bungalow, its for him to go, and makes ungreased wheels creaking and his pile: the soldier
goes the coolie, asprawl on the load, and gets the bubble reputation thinking himself alona, bawling | which he lives for: the missionary out the sternal song of the goes and writes home of the nasty Zakhmi Dil. He stopped when habits of the heathen; finally, the be saw a sabib standing in the tourist goes, and, flinging his compound and the old cart went money about and enjoying the squeaking on its way into the bes: the country has to show him, dusk.
at the best season of the year. tells every one at home what a magnificent time the poor devils of officials out there tenjoying salaries about A tenth of his hotel billal must bare. Bu:
Now darkness had fallen, and the Bying foxes began to pass and repass overhead, whilst low mutter of voices came from the cookhouse. The lean figure of the khansamah passed to and Iro in the doorway against the glow of his fire. I passed inside, into the heavy, hot, sufocating air, musty and fusty, of the little- visited rest house of the white man. What a solitude is that of the Indian official, who mus? pass a night in one of these old staging bungalows! The cheap oil-lamp glowers at him through a red mist of heat and winged in- sects, and he is glad to have the |little lizards on the wall for com-
pany.
Remembering the pools in the
none of them says thank you to us."
But I assure you there is no malaria here."
the
Now you wonil decive me. for I particulary noticed in the adjoining village that all children had paunches like little aldermen, sure sign of enlarged spleens due to your savagery."
** I must have blood before I can lay my eggs,” she murmured
lily. "Then," said 1, for heaven's sake lag o
Pazs. Become Buddhist and aim at self-exterm-
in the nullah bard by, I was cзro-ination. Be assured the world ful to tuck my mosquito net tight-can spare you.
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• ASQUITH'S HAT.
STUDENTS TO KEEP "WHAT
REMAINS OF IT."
Recently Mr. Asquith received the following from Mr. J. B. New don University, on behalf of ton Lancaster, written from Lon-
the students who cave Asquith a riotous oration Monday-
"Mess Noble Sir.-I am writing
on behalf of the students of the bospitals and of London Univer. it. We trust you are feeling none the worse for our
Our intentions were of "Tag." the best, as we are with you to a
man.
little
"We should feel very much honoured, sir, if you yourself would pen a word or so expressing forgiveness for our surprise in welcoming you back so uncere- ly under the mattress. A simple "Ah." she exclaimed triumph- moniously. Your hat is in our process enough, but one often antly. "But can it? What of safe keeping, and as it is rather neglected when one is bot and those old empires helped to ruled, perhaps you would not weary, only bringing to lie down extinguish. It was time for new object to our keeping it as a and stretch one's aching limbs. and better ones to ariae,
it was memento of
retorn."
I had my reward very so00. My 1 through all the ages that raked charpay was set put in the com-over the populations so that only pound as far away as possible the fittest should survive. I from the walls of the bangalow, weed the garden of mankind. which still were radiating the Wipe me off the world and what garnered heat of the day, but near will you get instead? This in- lenough to be sheltered by them Buenza-
from the peep of the early morn-i
ing sun. Abrene the star shone by millions. The stillness i was that of an empty world.
THE INTRUDEN
I had been there five minutes when there came the inevitable Ping! Ping! Ping! Pi-i-i-log! I went and came. The little beast was bunting all round the netting for a hole, telancing herself on her vibrating wings, simmering with concentrated wrath at being deprived of her feast of blood.
Ping! Ping! Let me in." she
gary.
I laughed. "Not I. I know you too well. my lady." She İsailed away, but came back in a second, her gauzy wings still vibrant with their fifty thousand beats a minute. Now she was near my head, now my feet.
"Peace woman.
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If we ran but teachabe vulgar and the ignotant.to.depend on us and help. In other circumstances I might us! The ignorant are our stum lament the loss of a new hat, but bling block: but the prejudiced I am more than content to leave are our quicksand. Yop, at any what, after their friendly a rate, have had poor day. You tentions, remains of it in their will wreck no mare empires nor keeping. Yours very truly. H. H. set up the treasure-houses of Asquith." Nature's choicest gifts.”
**And what about us she screamed. "Do you think it
right so depriva living creatures "Ugh!" she shrilled, "there's of life that you may escape?" a wind and I must go.
You are "Why," said I. "as to that Ioue of those mean men. May all know some people have expressed your children die of hobnailed
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Now there came a rattle of the dry leaves of the big nem tree
"All right," I answered, "I am sending a party of men to pour paraffin on the pools to suffocate Fours."
Monster!" she screamed and,
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