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We again 'went to work, and Mary was again 

 first with the answer, that her heap of locusts 

 was 1030 times larger than the pyramid ! 



" Well, Bertha," said my aunt, " you and I 

 will try what sort of a girdle the Colonel's locusts 

 would make for the earth, supposing them to 

 be placed close together ; but what shall we 

 assume for its circumference ?" 



My uncle said we might take 24,800 miles ; 

 and with my kind aunt's assistance, I had the 

 pleasure of astonishing the party with the infor- 

 mation, that this great swarm of locusts would 

 have encircled the globe with a band of a mile 

 and an eighth wide ! 



If these locusts had alighted any where in a 

 body, I suppose they would have destroyed 

 every thing; as it was, Colonel T. says, the 

 stragglers did a great deal of mischief through- 

 out the country, and he mentioned a laughable 

 story of the wife of an English merchant at 

 Smyrna, with whom he was acquainted. This 

 lady was very fond of her garden, and on the 

 approach of the locusts she and her maids had 

 spread sheets and table-cloths over all her choice 

 flower-beds to protect the plants. Poor woman! 

 she went to bed priding herself on her ingenuity, 

 but when the morning came, she found all 

 gone not only the flowers, but the linen also 

 totally demolished. 

 In answer to a question from my uncle, he said 



