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Show all alfJ! As told to: im ",a FRANK E. . d SCO!! IJt' HAGAN I WAT:: ,,, 1 The Despondent Grassioj; ;,(' A SEASONED maximal books Is that freq:-.-- real cry does a person go;: j .; , ard Bailer, once a Nebniav er, is sure of it. ,'i ( Eain washed away then;-. around his Nebraska la:ii : ? .i; drouth hit him squarely; i . V dust storms killed ever; ; thing ; then grasshoppers J" millions and settled on his Z Wasn't a thing for Hie 5 j"1-to j"1-to eat but they were )oo i: ' ,! move on and Leonard atair "e hope. As a last gesture, t'-: ' he rushed out among thei-ent thei-ent grasshoppers, and plat:- eral sets of the strongest aii. ;' : est onions he could buy. '! To his surprise the on!"1 tured quickly. The mom: ;'-'-bulbs appeared above pn:' '' grasshoppers pounced on tt;; 'Cor ravenously and burst Into i , "And that," Leonard recali; ' ., ily, "is how my farms were),' ' .The land was drenched byth ,of the grasshoppers and as! they had drowned themselta' jp-EIC abl to raise a normal cro;-.' '--"i Western Newspaper DbI '''I i |