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Show What Caused a War. The "Grasshopper War," which took place about the time the Pilgrims eame to New England in the Mayflower, between two Indian tribes, was brought about in this way : An Indian woman, with her little son, went to visit a friend belonging to another tribe. The little fellow caught a large grasshopper ou the road and carried it' with him. A lad from the other tribe wanted it, but he refused to give it up. A quarrel quar-rel ensued, which soon drew the fathers and mothers into the dispute, and ere long the chiefs were engaged in a war , which nearly exterminated one tribe. 1 |