Then came a sharp crack from the bush—a branch had snapped off. The air was darkening—a strange darkness, for the sun was blazing. It was oppressive, too, with the heaviness of a storm. The locusts were coming fast. Overhead, the air was thick—locusts everywhere. "We're finished, Margaret, finished! " Quick, get your fires started!
Through the hail of insects, a man came running. Toward the mountains, it was like looking into driving rain; even as she watched, the sun was blotted out with a fresh onrush of the insects. For, of course, while every farmer hoped the locusts would overlook his farm and go on to the next, it was only fair to warn the others; one must play fair. This comforted Margaret; all at once, she felt irrationally cheered. When she looked out, all the trees were queer and still, clotted with insects, their boughs weighted to the ground. And then: "Get the kettle going. Margaret heard him and she ran out to join them, looking at the hills. "Get me a drink, lass, " Stephen then said, and she set a bottle of whiskey by him. He lifted up a locust that had got itself somehow into his pocket, and held it in the air by one leg. What does cursing mean. Margaret was watching the hills.
Margaret supplied them. "Those beggars can eat every leaf and blade off the farm in half an hour! "The main swarm isn't settling. Then up came old Stephen from the lands. Activity where cursing is expected crosswords. She felt suitably humble, just as she had when Richard brought her to the farm after their marriage and Stephen first took a good look at her city self—hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed. "We haven't had locusts in seven years, " one said, and the other, "They go in cycles, locusts do. " And she noticed that for all Richard's and Stephen's complaints, they did not go bankrupt. When the government warnings came, piles of wood and grass had been prepared in every cultivated field. There were seven patches of bared, cultivated soil, where the new mealies were just showing, making a film of bright green over the rich dark red, and around each patch now drifted up thick clouds of smoke.
Then, although for the last three hours he had been fighting locusts, squashing locusts, yelling at locusts, and sweeping them in great mounds into the fires to burn, he nevertheless took this one to the door and carefully threw it out to join its fellows, as if he would rather not harm a hair of its head. Margaret answered the telephone calls and, between them, stood watching the locusts. Their farm was three thousand acres on the ridges that rise up toward the Zambezi escarpment—high, dry, wind-swept country, cold and dusty in winter, but now, in the wet months, steamy with the heat that rose in wet, soft waves off miles of green foliage. "You've got the strength of a steel spring in those legs of yours, " he told the locust good-humoredly. At the doorway, he stopped briefly, hastily pulling at the clinging insects and throwing them off, and then he plunged into the locust-free living room. The iron roof was reverberating, and the clamor of beaten iron from the lands was like thunder. The earth seemed to be moving, with locusts crawling everywhere; she could not see the lands at all, so thick was the swarm. In the meantime, thought Margaret, her husband was out in the pelting storm of insects, banging the gong, feeding the fires with leaves, while the insects clung all over him. She might even get to letting locusts settle on her, in time. It might go on for three or four years.
Margaret thought an adult swarm was bad enough. The rains that year were good; they were coming nicely just as the crops needed them—or so Margaret gathered when the men said they were not too bad. Old Stephen said, "They've got the wind behind them. She never had an opinion of her own on matters like the weather, because even to know about a simple thing like the weather needs experience, which Margaret, born and brought up in Johannesburg, had not got. Margaret sat down helplessly and thought, Well, if it's the end, it's the end. They are heavy with eggs. They all stood and gazed. Nothing left, " he said. He picked a stray locust off his shirt and split it down with his thumbnail; it was clotted inside with eggs. But Richard and the old man had raised their eyes and were looking up over the nearest mountaintop. And then: "There goes our crop for this season! It was like the darkness of a veldt fire, when the air gets thick with smoke and the sunlight comes down distorted—a thick, hot orange. Outside, the light on the earth was now a pale, thin yellow darkened with moving shadow; the clouds of moving insects alternately thickened and lightened, like driving rain.
But they went on with the work of the farm just as usual, until one day, when they were coming up the road to the homestead for the midday break, old Stephen stopped, raised his finger, and pointed. There it was even more like being in a heavy storm. Behind the reddish veils in front, which were the advance guard of the swarm, the main swarm showed in dense black clouds, reaching almost to the sun itself. She kept the fires stoked and filled tins with liquid, and then it was four in the afternoon and the locusts had been pouring across overhead for a couple of hours. The men were her husband, Richard, and old Stephen, Richard's father, who was a farmer from way back, and these two might argue for hours over whether the rains were ruinous or just ordinarily exasperating. Up came old Stephen again—crunching locusts underfoot with every step, locusts clinging all over him—cursing and swearing, banging with his old hat at the air. This swarm may pass over, but once they've started, they'll be coming down from the north one after another. So Margaret went to the kitchen and stoked up the fire and boiled the water. Margaret had been on the farm for three years now.
Now there was a long, low cloud advancing, rust-colored still, swelling forward and out as she looked. Soon they had all come up to the house, and Richard and old Stephen were giving them orders: Hurry, hurry, hurry. The houseboy ran off to the store to collect tin cans—any old bits of metal. At once, Richard shouted at the cookboy. But it's only early afternoon. The sky made her eyes ache; she was not used to it. She held her breath with disgust and ran through the door into the house again. Everywhere, fifty miles over the countryside, the smoke was rising from a myriad of fires. It's thirsty work, this. She still did not understand why they did not go bankrupt altogether, when the men never had a good word for the weather, or the soil, or the government. If we can make enough smoke, make enough noise till the sun goes down, they'll settle somewhere else, perhaps. " Old Stephen yelled at the houseboy. A tree down the slope leaned over slowly and settled heavily to the ground. If we can stop the main body settling on our farm, that's everything.
It sounded like a heavy storm. Old Smith had already had his crop eaten to the ground. Out came the servants from the kitchen. But at this she took a quick look at Stephen, the old man who had farmed forty years in this country and been bankrupt twice before, and she knew nothing would make him go and become a clerk in the city. "All the crops finished. The locusts were flopping against her, and she brushed them off—heavy red-brown creatures, looking at her with their beady, old men's eyes while they clung to her with their hard, serrated legs. Stephen impatiently waited while Margaret filled one petrol tin with tea—hot, sweet, and orange-colored—and another with water. Now on the tin roof of the kitchen she could hear the thuds and bangs of falling locusts, or a scratching slither as one skidded down the tin slope. More tea, more water were needed. One does not look so much at the sky in the city.
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