MARK TWAIN ON MOSQUITO NETS.
Mark Twain, in a letter to the inventor of a mosquito net, talks in this way about mosquito nets : — " There is nothing that a just aud right-feeling man rejoices in more than to see a mosquito imposed on, put down and brow-beaten and aggravated, and this ingenious contrivance will do it. Aud it is a rare thing to worry a fly with too. A fly will stand off and curse this invention till language utterly fails him. I have seen them do it hundreds of times. I like to di&e in the air on the back porch in summer, and so I would not be without this portable net for anything. When you get it hoisted the fliea have to wait for the second table. When shall the summer day come when we shall sit under our nets in cburoh and slumber peacefully, while the discomfited flies club together and take it put of the minister? There are heaps of ways of getting priceless enjoyment out of these charming things, if I bad time to point them out aad dilate on them a little."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 290, 1 November 1875, Page 4
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189MARK TWAIN ON MOSQUITO NETS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 290, 1 November 1875, Page 4
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