| 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 |
 Illustration from first edition of LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI |
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