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Anna Adams Gordon

“Skeeters have the reputation / Of continuous application / To their poisonous profession; / Never missing nightly session, / Wearing out your life's existence / By their practical persistence.”
- Anna Adams Gordon,
- "Concerning Mosquitoes," in Kate Sanborn, The Wit of Women (1885)

Anna Adams Gordon, U.S. social reformer, songwriter, prohibitionist

(1853 - 1931)