mosquito

the devils dictionary
n. The spore of insomnia, as distinguished from Conscience, the bacillus of the same disease. Indigenous to New Jersey, where the marshes in which they multiply are known as meadows and the mosquitoes themselves are affirmed by the natives to be larks.

"I am the master of all things!" Man cried.
"Then, pray, what am I?" the Mosquito replied.

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