He was having a lend of you I suspect. Sounds like a bit of a furphy
to me.
Didn't try and sell you shares in a gold mine as well did he?
Of course, plague locusts do behave like that - but they only eat the
green stuff, including your shirt.
AndrewF
(and he called it a ranch because if he'd said 'station', you'd have
misunderstood).
On 06/11/2005, at 4:50 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
> I had an interesting talk with a young man from Australia who waited
> on me in a shop. High on his list of things he liked about living
> here was the lack of bugs. He related a story to me about working on
> a ranch(my word, not his) in the Outback as a cook. They were just
> dishing up breakfast for the hands one morning when someone spotted a
> cloud on the horizon and yelled out for everyone to eat it or lose
> it. In minutes they were inundated in a cloud of flies that ate
> everything in sight. They travel in herds.
>
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