042- Leiningen Versus the Ants -William Conrad Jay Novello

Escape! You are located on the remote plantation in the crawling Amazon jungle, and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you, swarming into Euchu alive, a deadly black army, from which there is no escape.

Escape! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight at the request of many of our listeners, we bring you a repeat performance of one of the most gripping escape stories.

Tonight we escape to the Amazon jungle and to a creepy and crawling terror, as Carl Steffensen told it in his famous story, Linenjin versus the ants. I first met Linenjin while performing my duty as district commissioner.

As my boat near his plantation landing, I saw him upon the riverbank regarded me with mild interest, a great hulk of a man with bristling gray hair, bulky nose and pale eyes. His entire appearance somehow suggested an aging and shabby eagle.

He escorted me to the terrace and had drinks brought. I came quickly to the point of my visit and issued my warning. And I know Jim Puff, plastically, at a huge cigar, and listened as I said.

And unless they alter their course and there's no reason why they should, they'll reach your plantation in two days at the latest. Uh-huh. Well, Commissioner, it was decent of you paddling all this way just to give me the tip.

But a herd of crocodiles couldn't drive me from this plantation of mine. No, no, you do not understand at all. These aren't creatures you can fight. They're an elemental force, a gigantic catastrophe, ten miles long, two miles wide, ants, nothing but ants, and each one as big as your thumb. Unless you clear out if once there