🚀 go-pugleaf

I was not planning to get into this act, but could not resist posting this
delightful quote:

"A man I know who lives in the woods tells me that the mosquitoes this year
will be as big as sparrows, and may be expected to last well into December.
He bases this
prediction on the way beavers are building their dams.  As everyone knows,
beavers
eat a lot of insects, and partically mosquitoes (for the formic acid which
the latter
contain, and which assists the beaver in seeing under water) and the
beaver's burrow
contains a special chamber for storage of insects caught during the summer
season.
Apparently the beavers this year are making these chambers unusually big,
and from
this my friend deduces that they expect a bumper crop of mosquitoes, of a
particularly
large size...  I have always wished that I were better versed in nature lore
of this
kind."

How many know the author and the book?  One clue - it is not from Mark Twain's
similar satire!