artwork by Bradford P Ward
The Waterboatmen races on Meadow Pond are managed by a grasshopper who everyone just calls, Old Yellow Fat. We first meet him in Chapter 4 of A Pilgrimage of Pests. Perched atop a slimy, old gnarled stick in the middle of the pond, Old Yellow Fat calls every race (with great enthusiasm I might add).
Old Yellow Fat runs the races with honesty and pride and no one, not even the arrogant ants that always crowd along the shoreline, can find fault with his ability to organize the event.
Like everyone else, he is already making plans for the Great Cicada Emergence Ball. He plans to organize the greatest races Meadowfield has ever witnessed. You can read all about it in the trilogy's second book, The Great Cicada Ball.
Old Yellow Fat runs the races with honesty and pride and no one, not even the arrogant ants that always crowd along the shoreline, can find fault with his ability to organize the event.
Like everyone else, he is already making plans for the Great Cicada Emergence Ball. He plans to organize the greatest races Meadowfield has ever witnessed. You can read all about it in the trilogy's second book, The Great Cicada Ball.
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper quietly munching away.
