Record #:

8462

Author(s):

Lee, Joshua A

Abstract:

Storytellers sit around Dawse Cook's blacksmith shop in Millerville, recounting tall tells about summer's most hated insect, the mosquito. The stories include tales about how many mosquitoes a bird eats in a day, a chicken-eating mosquito, a mosquito that unscrewed its short bill and replaced it with a long one, and mosquitoes that get drunk from sucking on men drinking moonshine.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 1, June 1983, p22-23, il

Subject(s):

Tall tales