Note 8 — Chapter XVII · THE LOCUSTS: THEIR FUNCTION; THEIR ORGAN OF SOUND

Wild honey I know, if only from the pots of the Chalicodoma.8 It is a very agreeable food. There remains the Grasshopper of the desert, otherwise the Locust. In my youth, like every small boy, I appreciated a Grasshopper’s leg, which I used to eat raw. It is not without flavour. To-day let us rise a peg higher and try the fare of Omar and St. John the Baptist.