Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Maine’s Winter Mosquitoes. [ARTICLE]

Maine’s Winter Mosquitoes.

“Stopping over night at a little Maine hotel that stands on low ground near a marshy pond,” said the commercial traveler, “on a cold night, with three feet of snow on a level out of doors, I thought I heard a mosquito’s note. Of course it didn’t seem possible that mosquitoes should be humming about In midwinter, but soon I felt an unmistakable bite,, and saw several of the winged terrors flying between me and the light i“Oh, they’re mosquitoes sure enough,’ said the hostess in answer to my question. ‘They come from the cellar. We have ’em all winter long. It’s the lights at night that bring ’em up star's. They’re kind o’ sluggish at this season, and don’t bite as hard as they do In summer, but sometimes they're pooty vexin’ to folks not used to summerin’ and Winterin’ with ’em.’ ’’