QUESTIONS
1. What did the little boy see in the rain barrel? Why couldn't he catch them?
2. How did the "wiggle-tails" get into the barrel?
3. Why do they have to come to the top of the water so often?
4. Why did the little boy's mother want to destroy or kill the little "wiggle-tails"?
5. What is a Mosquito Brigade? Can't we have one in our school?
MALARIA
You remember, John, I told you about the "wiggle-tails," or baby mosquitoes, in the rain barrel, and how eager my mother was to put oil on the water and kill them.
Well, Mother told me a long story about the baby mosquitoes and what they do when they are grown up. She said that mosquitoes carry malaria, or chills, from one person to another.