Show Tibetans Depend on Species of Worms To Provide the Necessary Up Me A curious little worm which is I used by Tibetan natives as a pick I up me-up has attracted the attention of missionaries Locally known as they make their habitat in lofty mountain ranges of the Tibetan border near the leper home conducted by the Friars Minor of the Vicariate Natives eat them dead or alive for medical purposes In either form they bring fancy prices They are in great demand for the mentally depressed and for sufferers of stomach stomach ach trouble When dead they are mixed with boiled balled chicken In this concoction they are said to react wonderfully as pick pick me me ups When live worms without cocoons are dug up they are mixed with a strong liquor distilled from maize Taken in this form they are considered a potent remedy remedy rem edy against stomach ills So valuable is the grass worm grass worm considered that hundreds of ot hunters make a living by gathering lathering them The hunters hunter swarm the mountain slopes to search for tor these worms worm They easily eully find eager buyers ious lous to purchase all aU they can dig up In the winter season the ground is covered with these Insects More often they are found in the cocoon less often without In either form they find a ready market Though somewhat smaller they resemble worms silk in appearance The head Is II covered by a bright bright- red crust As winter approaches they burrow head-first head straight down Into the ground Here they spin thin cocoons in which th they thOY y wrap themselves When the snow melts their heads begin a sprouting proc proc- ess Thin hairs resembling grass spring from the soil solL The people of the believe that the sprouting blades bladel cp open n like flowers and scatter spores in fn indue indue due time develop into other worms |