ISRAEL'S GREAT RESOLVE It was six-and-twenty days since the night of the meeting on the Sok, and no rain had yet fallen.

The eggs of the locust might be hatched at any time.

Then the wingless creatures would rise on the face of the earth like snow, and the poor lean stalks of wheat and barley that were coming green out of the ground would wither before them.

The country people were in despair.

They were all but stripped of their cattle; they had no milk; and they came afoot to the market.