With the storm came a change of weather; and the stronger the wind blew, and the wilder the rain lashed around, the colder and colder it got. Pretty soon, various kinds of bugs and ants and worms and things began to flock in out of the wet and crawl down inside my armor to get warm; and while some of them behaved well enough, and smuggled up amongst my clothes and got quiet, the majority were of a rest?less, uncomfortable sort, and never stayed still, but went on prowling and hunting for they did not know what; especially the ants, which went tickling along in wearisome procession from one end of me to the other by the hour, and are a kind of creatures which I never wish to sleep with again. It would be my advice to persons situated in Supra TK Society this way, to not roll or thrash around, because this excites the interest of all the different Supra Suprano sorts of animals and makes every last one of them want to turn out and see what is going on, and this makes things worse than they were before, and gf course makes you objurgate harder, too, if you can,
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