The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-24
A GRASSHOPPER'S VENGEANCE
FIENDISH ACT or ONE ~ THE
PiSSiDlNkI COI NTRI.
Z rippied When s-d ss Hail, u nhird Its
rImr aud Later slew Troui Mhich
HAD Partly G0rEed % The sheep
PeII Man. NI~ ays Truthful. Relates %.

have So much more snap m "tn oNef
there than things have anywhere else
On top of earth said the man who goes
about buying mp sheep pelts. Even
graSshoppers Now ! know heaps 81
places wher- there Is twenty times more
grass than there l. along ~" old Pas~a-
danky
As for that. the old Pa~sadanky
country doesn't rlIn particularly Ia grass
AZ all We slash out good many hoop
poles and We peel considerable OF bark
/ vet We do little IN the maple sugar
way and our 'tat"rs amt few tn the hill'
/ hut W. don't hrag on our grass. Then
why should grasshoppers seem To lux" To
settle down with US 50 much and get So
overpowering smart among usG give II
up don't know
/ just tu prove To- YOU that they do |
/ will tell you something | don't pretend
to explain these things mind you. !
simply give you facts
/ Al this the patent right man almost
laughed outright. hut the sheep pelier
merely acted a. II he considered the
source. and coltinued
| Anybody who knows anything at all
about IL knows that there isn't any better
| halt for trout along late in the season
/ than grasshoppers. Our old Passadanky
grasshoppers know that well and | want
/ TO tell you that it's hard matter To run
B one Of EN- down and catch him when you
want To- go fishing. used Ia manage by
various bits 81 strategy To get enough
to fish with. II was hard work
80 imagine my delight when AZ the
county seat enc day | saw in store
window an artificial grasshopper with
a hook concealed about II. The grass
hopTer was a. natural as life. and saw
~ once that there needn't b. any more
wasting If energy On my part in pitting
my-'lf against our smart old Passadhnky
graSshoppcrs {" get bait, when ! could
US" the artificial grIsshopper 10 fool
the trout with 80 ! bought that killing
lure.
4 needn't say that Il worked like a
charm | think the trout went for Il
better than they did for the real thing
IN gra,-hoppcrs. for | have an idea they
knew how amazing smart our Passa-
dcnky gr,ls-hopp"rs were, and were
kind e. fraid II en-; 50 used that arri-
fetal hopp"- with great success
Il had tam" trout ~ n spring near
our house IL had been IN the spring "A
year | caught II one day ON a Passa-
danNy gr;lsShopiSr, and as the hook
hadn't hurt It much nut II IN a pail OF
water and got u home alive and active.
turned II into the spring. and it lived
and thTiVed
a funny thing was that tho grass
hopper | caught the trout with wasn't
killed hy the trout nor the hook l was
through fishing. and | took tho grass
Eopi-r ~ the hook and tossed II on the
ground IL moved away. and | saw Il
Wa minus On" leg. Its eyes were just
a. bri GIT ~ ever. though, and rs ! re-
ho'...r kind o. shook its hsad and looked
volumes - II llmlsd away headed straight
Tor oar place.
-Iu'y-- knew where that crippled grass
hopper y Inferred, but when waI-u weather
Cam.' neat year | give YOU my word that
Rras~hopper was the first | saw any
whore on the place IL Vas psrChsd on
zlwhors., ia oar hack yard. recognized
i AZ once. and II seemed TO recognize me
for u shook its head and had n queer look
10 - ewes "a Il limp-d along the saw
nor-'. tumbled of and -tumped away.
A. long - W." 81. got a place. said l.
adurIug IN" i0rtItud- and gameness Of
that gr,ls-hopT"r. that gra--hopper has
4 claim uu - aud any IN. that hurts that
graS-hopp"T wlll hay" 10 -.'e mo
We'll -ir. 90" grIs-hopp-r hung around
'l' u,ar,' ant uol-l"d ghout m a melan-
Chuly sort pi way. bat always with that
yG,'.'r look IN ~ eyes Every tim" II and
| Glanced 20 meet It worid stop. snake it's
: know now that % had veng"anc" on its
. ur.ud ~ ; 49, merely bldIng - time This
vas ia" -sslSou | got the artificial
gras-Lurp"r l. frequently sav the
crippled '"tlh. PRIV sitting On the fiat =ton"
over th. -'fr..I Wher" my pet trout was
and gIarfns down AZ the trout shaking
.t- h"ni rh. wuii" u q threatening wav
lg"r' wt- M DOUBT about It. not in my
uut TO-" grlr-tupp"r r"m"mi "rsd
, that ft.. u.s. A.. trout that had Crirv,ad
o . 80, ,s-nY. al.
'-Hrf puI show IDv hat"d %
1 u-.si O. 'remlHe for the poor grass
hupp"r. for NV trout inst dotted on grass
houp-r~ and 7 was fearfIl lest this almost
. anc' and tumNl" ~ the spring and thus
give up ~. rest 1t 'srlf Ia the hatcd fo-'
that had h-rrft It II IT, leg
one dav | had been out fshing with
my artificial grasShopper Wien I cam"
100 I took the leade- oN Of INV line
, With m" imitation inseC, on II and laid il
! on ~" hack stoon hong Call.-i away hv
something or other When | returned
90 get tho leader ten or Gf'e"n minutes,
later u was goG" ! SUPPOSED some one
hal picked II UP and put II away
some 'imr aft"rward I started - tho
spring 10 get a tail - water and ~ drew
near saw ~" criIul'd graSshopper drag
ginE Itself up on IN" fat stone that half
: cuyoral th" spring I stopp.d. and then
saw that ~" grIsshnpp"- was dragging
: something along with u When / saw
' that the something Vas nv missing: leadar
| give Won my worl il startled mo Nv
first imuuls" vas 20 GO and recover my
rrrr"rtv. but I didn't go
This unfortunate CRASH opper has
some purpo-. m view in III appropria ting
-. that leader. reasoned. Let us see
: what u may ~"
, I sOOn Saw Growing near tho FAT
: stone over a." -pring was C,rrant bush
. With great collaboration the crasshoppar
' took one end of NV header IN ~ mouth
1 and hnbbl"i round and round the bush
winding 40 I could -s-r. tho lGIder about
u The artificial grHs-hopuor had been
, hauled up on the stuu" and law there in
full view
-H.'lEc taken . firm hitch with IN.
: l'1ie- about tN" s'"n ~ the. bush the
vcuC"ful c-iprl"' crasshopp"r pushed
. It- cuurt"rf'Tt pr"s"0tmrnt along toward
' N" "dg" ~ 10" stone. and when n came
to IN" edge showed II over The artificial
gru--hory,r fell end there Vas leader
, enough left 'r'-' To- Jet 10 lust touch the
surface. - ~" water lightly There was
fash md a -pla-h in 'hc water. aud the
newt instant nv pot trou' vs. dashing
wildly Niuut IN the spring hooked on the
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