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were banked densely in their narrow path and were 

 massed two or three deep in some places while 

 they marched twenty or thirty abreast. They wore 

 gray-white bodies with coal-black stripes down the 

 back, they had black heads and were three-eighths 



of an inch in length. It took them all the fore- 

 noon to go through Chester." 



This description sounds like an account of a 

 hike of army worms. Evidently there was some- 

 thing doing in Chester, but personally I never saw 



