The trees are strange, the life is strange. There are certain familiar things visible. For instance, on one side of the pool there is an angry mammoth, with long hair and long tusks.
He is a huge, savage beast, monster of power with tiny, vicious eyes, and a curled trunk of unlimited force.
You recognize his resemblance to the modern elephant, and you feel at home.
In the middle of the pool, standing up to his waist in water, there is another queer creature. He has long, red hair, and through his lips you can see that in his rage he is grinding a large set of teeth with the canine incisors abnormally developed.
He is a shaggy, savage-looking brute, with a bloody and an apprehensive eye. You will recognize him as a human being.
As he stands in the pool there is a familiar slap of his right hand on the back of his left shoulder—he has killed a mosquito.
That is the picture. We leave the mammoth, primitive man and the mosquito to settle their troubles.
We call your attention to this. If you really witnessed that scene you would have undoubtedly said to the red-eyed savage in the pool:
"My friend, you can kill that mosquito easily, and possibly in time you will kill all the mosquitoes. But that MAMMOTH is a problem that you will not solve for a long time, if ever."
Had you known that the red-eyed human animal in the middle of the pool was sent there by Providence to regulate the globe, cultivate it, destroy the noxious forms of animal life, etc., you would certainly have believed that that person would have got rid of the mosquitoes long before getting rid of the mammoth.