then came the grasshopper: he was certainly much heavier, but he had a good figure and wore the green uniform that was born with him . this person, moreover, maintained that he belonged to a very old family in the land of Egypt and that he was highly esteemed there. He had just come from the field, he said and had been put into a card house three stories high, and all made of picture cards with the figures turned inwards. There were doors and windows in the house, cut in the body of the queen of hearts.