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day when the boys stormed the ridge, now look 

 cheerful and prosperous. "If these bugs intend to 

 stay on my farm during the winter, they will surely 

 have to be keen hunters to find a place for shelter/' 

 he says. 



"We used to think that the chinch-bugs would 

 drive us out of business/' Mr. Sprague says, "but 

 it looks now as if we have put the bugs out of busi- 

 ness. Not only that, but it has set us to thinking, 

 and we are better farmers than we used to be. Of 

 course, we still have chinch-bugs, but they are much 

 more polite and considerate than they were several 

 years ago." 



And all this good work started when Billy Burnet 

 peeked into Mr. Sprague's corn-crib that lovely 

 December afternoon. 



