IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
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each, a verse from the Koran, and let them go. That is sure to 
drive them away. 
The only way that the rest of the world finds of any use, is to 
wait for a storm, which invariably kills the whole of them. Mr. 
Wood says that after a severe storm, a bank of dead Locusts has 
been seen three or four feet high, and fifty miles long. 
In many countries the Government pays for ail eggs of the 
Locust that the people will bring. And in others, the people are 
obliged to pay their taxes with so many pounds of Locust eggs. 
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Here's the picture of another Grasshopper I want to tell you 
about, which has been found in New Guinea. It is called the Great 
Shielded Grasshopper, and a strange fellow he is. He is not a 
very lively creature ; but he does not need speed, for he looks so 
much like the leaves that no one would suspect him to be an 
insect. 
In the first place, his wins;s — which are more than nine inches 
across when open — are exactly like two green leaves, beautifully 
veined like a genuine leaf, and of the shining green color of many 
tropica] leaves. Then over the back, beginning at the top of the 
head, he carries what appears to be another leaf, and frrv-i which 
he is named. It is two inches and a half long, of a stiff, horny 
