Speaker 1: Hey, says dad, Mom.
Speaker 2: Come on your story.
Speaker 3: Hours on presenting your story, hour building for a better tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 5: Everyone, This is Aunt Carrol and I'm Uncle Dan. We're
Speaker 5: so glad that you've joined us today for another of
Speaker 5: our exciting stories.
Speaker 3: And I'm guessing that you have one all planned for us, right,
Speaker 3: Aunt Carroll?
Speaker 5: Well, yes, Uncle Dan, I do, now that you mention it.
Speaker 3: I thought, so, Now let me see what could your
Speaker 3: story be about today?
Speaker 5: Oh so you're going to try and guess?
Speaker 6: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 3: I know you like all kinds of stories, so this
Speaker 3: is probably going to be tough.
Speaker 5: Shall I give you a hint?
Speaker 3: Well, just a little hint might help.
Speaker 5: And once I give you this hint, you'll hop right
Speaker 5: onto it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I hope. So what's your hint?
Speaker 5: I just gave it to you.
Speaker 3: You did, I didn't hear a hint, Oh.
Speaker 5: But I did, And I'm sure there are some boys
Speaker 5: and girls listening in that caught it too.
Speaker 3: Well. Let's see, you said you'd give me a right,
Speaker 3: and then you said what was it that I'd hop
Speaker 3: right onto it or something like that?
Speaker 5: Right again?
Speaker 3: And then you said you'd given me the hint.
Speaker 5: You're getting warmer Uncle Dan.
Speaker 3: Hop onto it? Hmmm, that must be the hint. Hop
Speaker 3: hop onto it? What hops?
Speaker 6: Oh? I have it?
Speaker 3: This is a story about a kangaroo. Oh no, a rabbit.
Speaker 5: Wrong again?
Speaker 3: Hop?
Speaker 6: What else? Hops?
Speaker 5: And it can also fly?
Speaker 3: It hops and flies? Well, then there's only one thing
Speaker 3: I can think of. A grasshopper.
Speaker 5: You know something, Uncle Dan.
Speaker 6: You are just too.
Speaker 3: Smart, really, so your stories about grasshoppers.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is, in fact, I call it grasshoppers do.
Speaker 5: Our story today is a tribute to the many thousands
Speaker 5: of pioneers who forged their way across the vast territories
Speaker 5: of America and survived in the face of numerous perils
Speaker 5: and dangers. Even those who followed the first wave of
Speaker 5: set struggled through hardships almost unimaginable. Today, as our story begins,
Speaker 5: we join the Calkins family, Mama, Papa, ten year old
Speaker 5: Lois and little brothers Joshua and Tom. The place the
Speaker 5: southwestern corner of Minnesota. The time August of eighteen seventy four.
Speaker 6: H Yeah, I've brought you some water, Lois. I know
Speaker 6: ohen is a hard job.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Papa. I'm pretty worn out already and it's
Speaker 1: still morning.
Speaker 6: A good thing. Your mama and me can count on you, Peanut. Oh, Papa,
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, I mean it. Sometimes I don't
Speaker 6: know what possess an old man like me to think
Speaker 6: that I could keep on Piman forever. Good thing. Your
Speaker 6: mama's younger, but she's busy with the boys, and they're
Speaker 6: too young to do much of anything except mess up
Speaker 6: the house.
Speaker 1: I know, Papa, don't worry.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: We're depending on our garden for food this winter, and
Speaker 1: I'll do my best.
Speaker 6: Huh. Looks like these potatoes will be ready before long.
Speaker 6: But we we do need rain real bad. Been a hot,
Speaker 6: dry summer, Peanut. So we're lucky to have as good
Speaker 6: a garden as we do.
Speaker 1: We'll have a full root cellar again, won't we, Papa.
Speaker 6: You betcha God willing that we will. Well, I'm going
Speaker 6: back up to the barn and hitch Bessie up to
Speaker 6: the wagon. I've got to go into town for supplies,
Speaker 6: So you come on up to the house at noon
Speaker 6: to eat. I shall be back by then.
Speaker 4: Okay, Papa, there you are, lois warm bread right from
Speaker 4: the oven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my favorite. Where's Papa? Hasn't he come home yet?
Speaker 4: No, but I expect him any minutes.
Speaker 1: I see Papa through the window. He's coming.
Speaker 4: Well, well, Joshua, you know, I guess you're right at
Speaker 4: that come and licking a split too. I wonder if
Speaker 4: something is wrong. Oh what is it? John? You look so.
Speaker 6: Trouble that I am Clara. The talk is all over town.
Speaker 6: Righters from the west have brought news of a place.
Speaker 4: Oh, John, what is it? Cholera? Diphtheria?
Speaker 6: Grasshoppers?
Speaker 1: What? Grasshoppers?
Speaker 6: Yep? Huge clouds of them, millions and millions of them.
Speaker 6: They're eating everything inside, no right to the ground. There's
Speaker 6: not a blade of grass left. Their gardens are gone,
Speaker 6: their fields are destroyed.
Speaker 1: What will they do, Papa?
Speaker 6: There's nothing they can do.
Speaker 4: Oh my hah, it's all right, baby.
Speaker 6: But that's not the worst of it. I'm afraid the
Speaker 6: hoppers are heading east.
Speaker 1: They're coming here.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's hard to tell what will happen when they
Speaker 6: swarm again, just where they'll fly to.
Speaker 4: But they might come here, right, yes, yes.
Speaker 6: They might.
Speaker 1: Will they eat going up? Papa?
Speaker 6: I hope not.
Speaker 1: Is there anything we can do?
Speaker 6: Well? We can try to get some of our things
Speaker 6: to the root cellar.
Speaker 4: But almost nothing is ripe yet.
Speaker 6: I know. We'll just have to do the best we can.
Speaker 6: Beyond that, all we can do is pray.
Speaker 5: Later that evening, before bedtime.
Speaker 6: And so, dear Father, we asked you to protect our farm.
Speaker 6: We haven't been Christians very long, but we believe that
Speaker 6: you love us and will protect us. Please keep the
Speaker 6: grasshoppers away, we pray in Jesus name. I'm in.
Speaker 5: A few days later.
Speaker 6: Well, Peanut, we picked and stored everything we can, and
Speaker 6: at least.
Speaker 1: We've already eaten some food from the garden, some tomatoes
Speaker 1: and beans.
Speaker 6: Yes, plus we have a little money saved up.
Speaker 1: Papa, what's that?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Look up at the sky. It looks like snow. It's snowing.
Speaker 6: Watch in the world.
Speaker 1: Look it is snow in August. Great big snowflakes in
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 6: Oh, oh no, Peanut, it's not snow. It's the grasshoppers.
Speaker 6: They're here.
Speaker 1: Oh no, look, Papa, that big cloud. It goes as
Speaker 1: far as I can see in both directions. Oh. Look,
Speaker 1: one just landed on me.
Speaker 6: Listen to them cubs. What a wreckage. Quick. Let's get
Speaker 6: to the house.
Speaker 5: The next morning.
Speaker 4: Look at them, John, They're covering everything, the trees, fences,
Speaker 4: the barn, the ground. They're even in the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he ain't my bed. I know. I had to
Speaker 1: shake them out of my covers twice last night.
Speaker 6: There's no way to stop them.
Speaker 1: How come Jesus didn't answer our prayers, Papa?
Speaker 6: I don't know, but I do know that he cares
Speaker 6: about us, and somehow he'll take care of us.
Speaker 4: We'll just have to have faith.
Speaker 5: Later that day, Papa made a trip into town, where
Speaker 5: he chanced to meet some of his friends, fellow farmers
Speaker 5: from the surrounding countryside.
Speaker 7: So, John, what's it like at your place?
Speaker 6: Same thing? Yeah, two or three inches stick in some places. Yeah, everywhere.
Speaker 8: I lost sixty acres of wheaten less than an hour.
Speaker 7: I couldn't believe it. I hear you, Andrew. They even
Speaker 7: ate through the flour sacks I put on top of
Speaker 7: my garden to protect it. Can you believe that they
Speaker 7: just ate the sacks their quiet?
Speaker 9: If you think that's bad jes wait until next spring.
Speaker 6: Oh what do you mean, Karl.
Speaker 9: Happened to seen them? The holes in the ground.
Speaker 6: I've seen them.
Speaker 8: Looks like somebody took an ale and just poked holes
Speaker 8: in the ground all over the place.
Speaker 6: Yep, those holes are here. To hoppers lay their eggs.
Speaker 6: I've seen them too. Yeah, hundreds of holes, thousands of hole,
Speaker 6: millions of holes.
Speaker 9: More like, the hoppers lay their eggs and seal the
Speaker 9: holes with some kind of sticky stuff that hottens up
Speaker 9: makes like a little roof over the eggs.
Speaker 7: So you're thinking about spring when the eggs hatch you bet?
Speaker 9: I am, And they all hatch out, what do you
Speaker 9: think they will be eating.
Speaker 7: Our gardens, our crops?
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 9: I don't see any hope for next year, No hope
Speaker 9: at all.
Speaker 7: Well, we might as well save our energy and money
Speaker 7: and not plant anything.
Speaker 8: Then, Well, this does it for me. I was just
Speaker 8: about ruined before, what with the dry summer we've had.
Speaker 8: I think we'll just have to pack up and go
Speaker 8: back to Ohio. I hate to give up, but I'm
Speaker 8: out of money and options.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I might just have to do that myself. Guess
Speaker 9: I'll wait and see what spring brings. But it can't
Speaker 9: be good.
Speaker 6: What about you, John, Well, I don't know. We prayed
Speaker 6: for God to protect our land. If I quit now
Speaker 6: and not even give him a chance to prove what
Speaker 6: he can do.
Speaker 8: Get real, John, The grasshoppers are here. They've laid their eggs.
Speaker 8: Now that's reality. Nothing you were God for that matter,
Speaker 8: can do about it.
Speaker 9: Sad but true, yap, sad but true. Al Right, I
Speaker 9: expect the boss hopper to show up any time now,
Speaker 9: and the man that I give him a spade to
Speaker 9: dig up my potato so that he and his friends
Speaker 9: can eat those two before they go.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and are you gonna give it to them, Carl,
Speaker 8: that's a spade?
Speaker 9: I mean no, Sorry, I'll not on your life. Don't
Speaker 9: think you'll be getting that shovel from me.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Finally, after cutting a path of total destruction, the grasshoppers
Speaker 5: took flight and swarmed farther eastward. All that winter, however,
Speaker 5: whenever neighbor met neighbor, grasshoppers were the topic of discussion.
Speaker 4: Now, I'll take three yards of that calico, mister Larson. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: one on the left there that one?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yes, well all right, missus Calkins coming right up?
Speaker 10: You sure you want this fun with all the green
Speaker 10: leaves and flowers on it?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Is there something wrong with that material?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 10: No, no, I guess not. It's just the well my
Speaker 10: cousin wrote to me. It got the letter A couple
Speaker 10: of days ago, her little girl was out in the
Speaker 10: yard when the grasshoppers hit them out in Kansas. Before
Speaker 10: you could say Jack krabbitt, those hoppers landed right on
Speaker 10: little Mary's dress and ate the green stripes right out
Speaker 10: of her dress. Yeh, left the white stripes and ate
Speaker 10: the green bob. No, yeah, the dress was in shreds
Speaker 10: before they could get it off the child.
Speaker 4: Well, in that case, give me three yards of that
Speaker 4: bowl there, the pink and white one. All right, might
Speaker 4: as well not tempt those credits with our crops and
Speaker 4: our clothes.
Speaker 6: Oh you bet you it's on eh. Well, cow, hello,
Speaker 6: I haven't seen you since Christmas?
Speaker 9: What about this weather supposed to beat tin Bilow tonight?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty chilly, all right, but anything that keeps
Speaker 6: those hoppers napping and with me, Yeah.
Speaker 9: They don't much like the snow. It's going to be
Speaker 9: bad in the spring.
Speaker 6: Oh you're sticking around then.
Speaker 9: Yes, so might as well see what happens. I've caught
Speaker 9: a few our jobs this winter, so we've been able
Speaker 9: to buy what we need.
Speaker 6: How about you, Well, so far, so good, I'll say,
Speaker 6: I am wondering could I hire you to complow my garden?
Speaker 6: Come warm? Weather. I'm just not able to do it
Speaker 6: myself anymore, so i'd appreciate your help.
Speaker 9: Are you crazy you're putting in a garden pland on it? Well, sure,
Speaker 9: I guess. But when all those hoppers hats, they'll eat
Speaker 9: it as fast as it grows. You know that they
Speaker 9: don't have wings at first.
Speaker 6: I know they call them nymphs, right.
Speaker 9: So they can't even fly away to somewhere's else until
Speaker 9: they grow those wings. They're hungry little beast too. But
Speaker 9: we saw last summer wasn't the worst.
Speaker 6: I know. It's just well, we've been studying our Bible,
Speaker 6: praying a lot too, and we've asked God to see
Speaker 6: us through Listen to protect our garden. We've got to
Speaker 6: have that or will starve.
Speaker 9: Yes, some folks are very starving folks out each have
Speaker 9: been collecting money for food and seed to send out
Speaker 9: here for us in the spring.
Speaker 6: A good thing, and God bless them.
Speaker 9: I heard that the whole family mother, father, and four
Speaker 9: kids or died within a week of each other starve
Speaker 9: to death. And if I don't miss my guests, there'll
Speaker 9: be lots of tombstones with starve to death carved on
Speaker 9: the crosses.
Speaker 6: Let's hope it doesn't come to that. Carl, Let's hope
Speaker 6: and pray. Claire, my dear, you are amazing. You always
Speaker 6: do make something wonderful, even when our supplies are short.
Speaker 4: I just hope that we have enough flour and corn
Speaker 4: meal to see us through until spring.
Speaker 1: I hope our garden grows really fast and hoppos don't
Speaker 1: eat it all.
Speaker 6: Speaking of witch, I pound out today in town that
Speaker 6: these aren't really grasshoppers.
Speaker 4: Well, of course they are. Everybody knows.
Speaker 6: No, they're locusts now. Grasshoppers can fly, but they don't
Speaker 6: swarm together and fly off in a cloud like these did.
Speaker 6: Otherwise they're pretty much the same critter.
Speaker 1: Papa, did you read in the Bible that John the
Speaker 1: Baptist ate locusts? Oh?
Speaker 6: That I did, Peanut. Course, there are locust trees too
Speaker 6: that have bean pods on them, so I don't know
Speaker 6: whether he ate those beans or if he ate critters
Speaker 6: like these.
Speaker 1: I hope it was beans and not buff Well.
Speaker 6: Guess what turns out that the Indians ate these bugs,
Speaker 6: as you call them. They toasted them over a pireh
Speaker 6: and eat them eww, yuck, And they ground them up
Speaker 6: and put them in stew.
Speaker 4: Oh shod really, really, you're.
Speaker 6: Supposed to actually be good for you, except for the
Speaker 6: legs and wings, which I'm told don't digest.
Speaker 4: Very well, I can imagine.
Speaker 1: I hope we don't have to eat grasshopper stew.
Speaker 4: Let's pray again. Let's ask God to protect our garden.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's all right, Dear Jesus. We pray that when
Speaker 6: spring comes, you'll watch over our garden and protect it
Speaker 6: from being destroyed. You know, I'm old and I can't
Speaker 6: work a farm anymore. You know, we depend on our
Speaker 6: garden for food and for the income we get them
Speaker 6: selling our vegetables. So we ask you to put your
Speaker 6: hand over the ground that we plow and the siege
Speaker 6: we play.
Speaker 3: So what happens, Aunt Carroll? Does God honor Papa's prayer?
Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 3: your story called Grasshopper stew.
Speaker 5: All winter long, the Caulkins family studied their Bible and
Speaker 5: prayed that God would spare their garden. Even though they
Speaker 5: were relatively new Christians, they took courage and the stories
Speaker 5: recorded in scripture.
Speaker 1: Wow, so God saved Daniel from the hungry lions.
Speaker 6: That's right, my girl.
Speaker 1: Well God see us too, Papa.
Speaker 6: I don't see why not, Joshua, we just have to
Speaker 6: have favorite show children. That's the story of Joseph.
Speaker 1: God saved Joseph's family from starvation.
Speaker 6: Didn't he yes, unit he did, and not only Joseph.
Speaker 6: God shaved all of Egypt too.
Speaker 1: Then he can do it for us. I just know
Speaker 1: he can't.
Speaker 5: Then, when spring arrived, Papa arranged for his friend Carl
Speaker 5: to come and plow their garden plot.
Speaker 9: I tell you, but John, I'll do it for you.
Speaker 9: But you're just throwing your money of Eh, you're the
Speaker 9: only one I know that's even bothering. Everybody knows what's
Speaker 9: going to happen. Then the hopper's.
Speaker 6: Hatch, and I reckon they're going to hatch, all right.
Speaker 6: I am just trusting God to step in and overrule
Speaker 6: their destruction.
Speaker 9: Most foolish thing I've ever heard of. But you're paying me,
Speaker 9: and I could use the money, so I best get
Speaker 9: at it.
Speaker 4: John, Look outside, I know it's happening.
Speaker 6: The hoppers are hatching.
Speaker 4: They're already stripping the trees. Soon there won't be a
Speaker 4: leaf in sight.
Speaker 1: It looks almost like wintertime that it does lowers.
Speaker 6: My We knew it would be bad, and it's even
Speaker 6: worse than I thought. But I bought the seeds just
Speaker 6: the same, beets, squash, corn, tomatoes, everything we need for
Speaker 6: a perfect garden.
Speaker 4: So do you really think.
Speaker 6: Clara, my dear, we're planting this garden, and then it's
Speaker 6: up to God. All right now, Lois, I am depending
Speaker 6: on you and Joshua to plant the garden. I just
Speaker 6: can't get down and do it with these old bones
Speaker 6: of mine.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, Papa, Yeah, we can do it.
Speaker 6: I'll sit right here on this stool at the end
Speaker 6: of the rose. I'll get the seeds ready for you.
Speaker 1: Papa.
Speaker 6: What is it, Penis?
Speaker 1: The hoppers are all over the ground. How are we
Speaker 1: going to plant the seeds?
Speaker 6: You just take your hand and scrape the grass hoppers aside,
Speaker 6: plant the seeds, pat the dirt over them, and go
Speaker 6: on to the next hill. Good job, children, I'm so
Speaker 6: proud of you.
Speaker 1: Every time I planted seeds, Papa, I said.
Speaker 6: A prayer, need too, well, then you need it just right.
Speaker 1: Will God make our garden grow and keep Donald's out
Speaker 1: so we don't have to eat grasshopper stew.
Speaker 6: Let's just see what God will do for us. Don't
Speaker 6: you be worrying about that stew just yet.
Speaker 9: Phil John, It's mighty nice of you to grow fresh
Speaker 9: garden salad for the hoppers to eat.
Speaker 1: See what's that I see there?
Speaker 9: The first sprouts.
Speaker 6: I don't know where.
Speaker 9: Right there, that's rope.
Speaker 2: What's that anyway, let me see, let us throw They're
Speaker 2: going to eat that a pretty cool don't be too sure, Carl.
Speaker 2: Oh they'll eat it all right, lettuce ooohy, just the
Speaker 2: thing they ordered for breakfast, I'm sure.
Speaker 5: Strangely enough, however, the Calkins lettuce, their peas, corn beet, squash,
Speaker 5: and everything else they planted was not eaten by the grasshoppers.
Speaker 5: The green sprouts pushed their way through the earth, and
Speaker 5: the plague of insects, which was often several inches thick
Speaker 5: in the fields, did not touch the tender garden plants.
Speaker 5: Soon neighbors far and near began to come and see
Speaker 5: this phenomenon for themselves. Look at that, Dennis. Can you
Speaker 5: believe it?
Speaker 11: It's spooky, that's what it is, Elizabeth. The hoppers have
Speaker 11: eaten everything, even the paint off our house, and here's
Speaker 11: this garden, green and beautiful. Something weird is going on,
Speaker 11: for sure.
Speaker 9: Bill John, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't
Speaker 9: seen it with my own eyes. Then I plowed this
Speaker 9: up for you. I thought you were the craziest man
Speaker 9: on the planet to waste your money. But now just
Speaker 9: look at it. It's the best garden I ever saw.
Speaker 6: You know what I think, Clara.
Speaker 4: Oh, Betsy, yes, that something wonderful is happening right here
Speaker 4: in our own garden. There's not a green blade of
Speaker 4: grass within hundreds of miles.
Speaker 1: But your squash plants just look at them, they're huge,
Speaker 1: and your corn.
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: God has blessed your garden.
Speaker 5: All that summer, the grasshoppers continued to munch their way
Speaker 5: through everything that was even remotely edible, everything that is,
Speaker 5: except what grew in the Calkin's garden. They harvested fifty
Speaker 5: bushels of beer eat from a very small patch. There
Speaker 5: were eighty three enormous squashes from just three plants. Everything
Speaker 5: they planted produced abnormally large quantities that were of the
Speaker 5: highest quality.
Speaker 6: Well, Peanut, it's time to take our supply of vegetables
Speaker 6: to the cellar and store them for the winter.
Speaker 1: Okay, Papa, are we going to sell the rest? Like always?
Speaker 6: Eh? I'll hitch up Bessie and pull the stand out
Speaker 6: to the road. Just stink. We have plenty to eat
Speaker 6: and plenty to sell. It's a miracle, no doubt about.
Speaker 9: It there, John. It looks like all the money you
Speaker 9: paid me to plow up your garden plot is going
Speaker 9: right back into your pockets. You're the only one with
Speaker 9: vegetables to sell for miles around. And look at them too.
Speaker 9: I don't believe that they ever seen pumpkins and carrots
Speaker 9: or anything that looks as good as these.
Speaker 6: God did all this, Carl, You know it had to
Speaker 6: be him. I had to be see. Uh, they'll what
Speaker 6: is it, Carl, They'll.
Speaker 9: The Petersens, the let's put it this way. I saw
Speaker 9: Nelly in town yesterday and Sheazrael. Then if I don't
Speaker 9: miss my guess, they're all but starving to death, and
Speaker 9: I know for a fact that they're going to lose
Speaker 9: their farm. They're completely broke. I don't suppose.
Speaker 6: Ah for Shay, no more, Carl used up by their
Speaker 6: place on your way home, and send them over here.
Speaker 6: I don't mind taking money from folks who have some
Speaker 6: to pay for our produce, because we're going to need
Speaker 6: the money. But I'll give to folks they can't pay.
Speaker 6: That's only right, considering what God has done for us.
Speaker 9: I thought you'd see that you're a good man. I'll
Speaker 9: send him right over.
Speaker 6: Now you two just look things over and decide what
Speaker 6: you'll be needing. None of our friends will starve while
Speaker 6: we have food up plenty.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 4: We're so happy to be able to share God's blessings.
Speaker 6: Bless you, Clara, you too, John. That goes double for
Speaker 6: me now, Henry, Nellie, no thanks needed, you know, John,
Speaker 6: this is just like in Bible times. God kept his
Speaker 6: promise to you. We've done a good deal of Bible
Speaker 6: reading and praying this summer, But a promise about a garden,
Speaker 6: I don't remember anything.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's there.
Speaker 3: God rebuked a devourer, just like he said he would.
Speaker 9: I think maybe it's in Malachi.
Speaker 6: Really well, I guess we'll have to look that up.
Speaker 3: You do that, and when you find it, you'll know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 4: We'll look for it tonight when we have family worship.
Speaker 4: And now, Nelly, let me grab this bushel basket and
Speaker 4: you can start picking out what you folks need.
Speaker 6: Malachi, that's what they said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Who said what?
Speaker 4: Oh Henry Peterson. When they were here today, he said
Speaker 4: there was a promise in Malachi that would explain our garden.
Speaker 6: Really, yeah, let's see here. Well, well, what do you
Speaker 6: know here it is read it to us. John Malachi
Speaker 6: three says here to give God our tithe.
Speaker 1: We do that. We pay our tithes, don't we, Papa.
Speaker 6: Yes, peanis all the times have been. We've been faithful
Speaker 6: with God's tithes. And then it says, I will rebuke
Speaker 6: the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy
Speaker 6: the fruits of your ground.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: And to think God made that promise and kept it
Speaker 4: even before we knew about it.
Speaker 6: God rebuked the devourer all right.
Speaker 4: Our gardener's proof of that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And God answered my prayer too.
Speaker 6: Oh did you pray some kind of special prayer?
Speaker 1: I sure did, Was it, Peanut, that I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: to eat grasshopper stew? Yuck?
Speaker 6: Nope, no grasshopper stew for this family, Only the wonderful
Speaker 6: food that God protected from the grasshopper plague. Praise his
Speaker 6: wonderful name.
Speaker 3: Well, Aunt Carol, I must say, I'm glad I've never
Speaker 3: had to eat grasshopper stew or go hungry.
Speaker 5: Me too, Uncle Dan, And I'm sure our listeners feel
Speaker 5: the same way.
Speaker 3: I think you're right, even if pizza isn't on the menu.
Speaker 3: And Mom insists that you eat your veggies. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you'll be glad you aren't having grasshopper stew for supper
Speaker 3: or breakfast our lunch.
Speaker 5: Before we forget, we promise to give you our webin
Speaker 5: mailing addresses again.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 3: Our website is at your story hour dot org.
Speaker 5: Or rite us at box eight Niles, n I L E. S.
Speaker 5: Michigan four nine one two zero.
Speaker 3: And now we have to close for today. Be sure
Speaker 3: to tune in next time, won't you.
Speaker 5: We'll be looking for you.
Speaker 3: This has been your story Hour, building for a better tomorrow.
Speaker 5: This is Aunt Carrol and Uncle Dann saying goodbye everyone,
Speaker 5: See you again next time.
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