" I was breaking a section [of farmland] in North Dakota. The mosquitoes made me so wretched, that in despair I crawled under an enormous iron cooking kettle. In my fancied security, I felt a prickling sensation in my left shoulder. "
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Congressman Johnson's "Mosquito Tall Tale"
The very best tall tale about North Dakota’s gigantic mosquitoes came from Martin N. Johnson, a Congressman and storyteller. Johnson often repeated his…
