“Sea Gulls and Crickets”
Description
Famine threatens Mormon pioneers in the winter of 1849; spring brings new shoots, but crickets sweep down "like fog on a British coast." The pioneers battle them in vain, but flocks of seagulls arrive and devour the crickets; the harvest is saved
Recordings
- L. M. Hilton, "Sea Gulls and Crickets" (on Hilton01)
References
- Roud #10833
- BI, RecSgaC