the reputation of being singularly unworldly, for a river man.

Among other things, he said that Arkansas had been injured and kept

back by generations of exaggerations concerning the mosquitoes here.

One may smile, said he, and turn the matter off as being a small thing;

but when you come to look at the effects produced, in the way

of discouragement of immigration, and diminished values of property,

it was quite the opposite of a small thing, or thing in any wise

to be coughed down or sneered at. These mosquitoes had been