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 At night, and especially from being in the suburbs, we could not escape from the annoyances that are peculiar to a hot climate. The frogs made a continued loud chirping, one appearing to be the chief speaker, while the rest repeated the din, nntil you were wearied out. Doubtless their notes conveyed ideas that were understood by them, but they were so often repeated (as people meeting at home make observations about the weather) that you knew what the last speakers would say as well as the first, uptil in half-sleep the noise seemed like a pulse beating in your ear.

Mosquitoes, of course, find you out and creep in at the smallest opening left in the muslin curtain; and after you have exterminated every one inside, and you think you may be at rest, the same buzz and twinge awaken you. You strike a light, and administer the like destruction to them again and again; till fairly worn out at last, and driven to