“The Potato Bug”
Description
"It's just past ten years ... Since we heard of that plague of a fly." Every morning "I'll shake every stalk" and the bugs fall into his pan. As quickly as he catches them "they'll be over the sides" and escape. He should "carry a pan of hot coals"
Notes
Ives-DullCare: "[The potato bug] began arriving on the Island in significant numbers in the late 1880s." - BS
References
- Ives-DullCare, pp. 202-203, 253, "The Potato Bug" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Roud #13994
- BI, IvSC202