"'My good man,' says he, 'you've crushed them all
to pieces!'
"'They'll taste as good for all that,' says I; for
somehow I'd taken't in me head that he'd heard o' the
way the Injuns make soup o' the grasshoppers, an' wos
wantin' to try his hand at a new dish!
"He laughed when I said this, an' told me he wos
collectin' them to take home to be
looked
at. But that's