Show how grasshoppers task night says kurt dinter a Gern aate ONE eler w camped on a plain in sooth abc just as a mighty swarm of tied over everything my black boy pree ly began to gather them and after they had o 0 they poured them gently into the campfire camp firc were killed before they touched the flame and fass at the same moment their legs and wings were assy off they raked them away from the fire almost aria ly and settled down to a feast I 1 tried tham syi and found them rather tasteless to my palates tasted very much like the diminutive roasted arfat that one gets in the fishing villages of italy the next morning with the first beams of ake there was a stirring in the bushes and among fe grasses and soon I 1 heard a sound as if a harj a were falling on dry foliage then all at once tbt te plain seemed to be covered with a peculiar lowhar low har cloud the grasshoppers were moving on then I 1 saw for the first time what it meant whom african plain is attacked by grasshopper hordes ft counted billions of them were in front of us warn such a cloud falls there remains not a leaf not of grass not a tender twig on a tree not even chett cane like stalk of the maize the natives and the white men too turn aina of the plague to profit as possible they e grasshoppers by the bushel dry them in the over fires and feed them to the chickens pip sand even the dogs all of which animals seem ta st them equally and thrive on them |