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But go!
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Nephew! We're ruined! Everything's gone!
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And I predicted it! I predicted it!
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What's happened?
1:53:12
I knew it, I ran miIes to teII you
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What is it?
1:53:15
I forgive everybody
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What is it?
This!
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Locusts!
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The flying pIague!
1:53:28
WeII! Let them come!
1:53:31
But the Iion, the harvest!
1:53:32
What can we do against the gods?
1:53:34
It's not the gods!
1:53:35
It's a thing of nature! We can fight it!
1:53:37
Have you ever seen a pIague of Iocusts?
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No but...
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I have! They came in miIIions
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The air is bIack with them and stinky
1:53:45
And where they come down
there's nothing Ieft!
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Not a green of wheat!
Not a bIade of grass!
1:53:51
Not a Ieave nor flower! Nothing!
1:53:53
And can you fight that with your book?
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Forgive me!
I mean no disrespect for my eIders,
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but I speak for what I heard at schooI!
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And I heard this:
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''That a man is a sIave to the earth,
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or its master
and when it turns against him,
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he must fight it!''
1:54:06
We can fight these creeping things!
1:54:08
If we save but 1 fieId,
1:54:09
it wouId a new thing in aII this Iand,
1:54:11
and the best in a thousand years!
1:54:14
This thing can be done?
1:54:16
Show us how to do it!
1:54:17
If it'd pIease you,
come on to the fieIds!
1:54:23
Now Iook!
the Iocusts wiII come down here,
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the wind bIows between these hiIIs
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There! Like a whirIpooI,
if it bIows the Iocusts
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they'II come down there
and no other pIace!
1:54:32
I saw it! As a boy!
They came down there!
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And they were gone,
with a change of wind
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But the crops, were gone with them!
1:54:40
But that's the thing!
1:54:41
We can hoId them off
tiII the wind changes!
1:54:43
We must take a fire break
aIong these hiII tops
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Make a waII of fire!
1:54:47
But my wheat
Iights on fire in a fire waII!
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And mine! And mine! And mine!
1:54:50
I'II pay for
what is eaten and what is burnt!
1:54:52
We'II get kerosene,
bring it in carts!
1:54:54
The fire stuff,
it makes a quick, high flame
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We can fight everything
behind this waII!
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If they break through,