Potato Bug, The

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"
AUTHOR: Lawrence Doyle
EARLIEST DATE: 1969 (Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland)
KEYWORDS: farming ordeal nonballad bug hardtimes
FOUND IN: Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland, pp. 202-203, 253, "The Potato Bug" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #13994
NOTES [22 words]: Ives-DriveDullCareAway-PrinceEdwardIsland: "[The potato bug] began arriving on the Island in significant numbers in the late 1880s." - BS
File: IvSC202

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