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He said that two of them could whip a dog, and that four of them could hold
a man down; and except help come, they would kill him--"butcher him,"
as he expressed it. Referred in a sort of casual way--and yet significant
way-- to "the fact that the life policy in its simplest form is unknown
in Lake Providence--they take out a mosquito policy besides." He told
many remarkable things about those lawless insects. Among others, said he
had seen them try to vote. Noticing that this statement seemed to be a good
deal of a strain on us, he modified it a little: said he might have been
mistaken, as to that particular, but knew he had seen them around the polls
"canvassing."
- Life on the Mississippi |
