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 inhabitants were in the street, collected in small groups, all gazing heavenward.

The coach passed slowly along, and finally halted where the passengers could watch what the children knew to be a cloud of bears, apparently falling from the heavens.

At first it appeared to be a mass of flies.

Some of the boys shouted: "Look! it's a plague of insects comin'!"

"No, 'tain't, it's too big for insects, it's locusts!" shouted others.

"Too large for locusts," said some of the mothers.

Then, as they came nearer, "It's animals!" cried some one in great alarm. "Mercy! Mercy! The world must be comin' to an end!"