A Swarm of Locusts attack a Camp : Driving off the "Butterflies in Khaki". 1900.

For Sale is a Half Page removed from "The Graphic, June 16th, 1900," showing a Drawing by H. M. Paget where "A Swarm of Locusts Attacks a Camp :  Driving off the "Butterflies in Khaki".  
Size of Drawing- 23cm. x 15cm.

A swarm of Locusts is the dread of the farmer in South Africa, for they leave a desolate wilderness behind, and a swarm is scarcely more welcome when it visits one of the British camps.  So intolerable a nuisance are the locusts-they measure about 2.5 inches in length-that everyone turns out in great excitement to repel the invaders.  "I have seen," writes Mr. Juliam Ralph in the Daily Mail, " all the men of the Coldstream and Scotts Guards out of their tents in their undershirts and breeches whacking away at billions of locusts with bayonets, sheaths, saucepans, haversacks, helmets, braces, sticks, short shovels, tunics, boots- with everything they could lay hands on- and all shouting and laughing like schoolboys.  You have heard what one said when he saw his first locust :  "Blime me," said he, 'if even the bloomin butterflies ain't Khaki down 'ere.'"

Condition is Very Good.