massaugers

Updated: May 22, 2025

The remaining occupants put in their time telling blood-curdling experiences with `massaugers, that infested those marshes; and while I bent grasses and cattails to make the best footing as I worked my way toward the moth, I could hear a mixed chorus "brought up thirteen in the dredge at the cement factory the other day," "killed nine in a hayfield below the cemetery," "saw a buster crossing the road before me, and my horse almost plunged into the swamp," "died of a bite from one that struck him while fixing a loose board in his front walk."

Gene Stratton-Porter - Moths of the Limberlost