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      The Boy Hunting Locusts


There was a boy named STANLEY. He was hunting for locusts.

 He had caught a very good number of locusts, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, he reached out his hand to take him.

The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!"