Stories of the Animal World Arranged So As to Form a Systematic Introduction to
Stories of the Animal World Arranged So As to Form a Systematic Introduction to
B H Draper
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The light it gives is so strong, that anyone may read by it ; and the natives put one or two on a stafi", and they afibrd them suflicient light to guide them through the woods. How I should like to have a few of them ! I %\dsh they were in our country, as well as the glow-worms. Gryllus gryllo-talpa. T Gryllus domesticus. Gryllus carapestris. § Fulgora lanternaria. 362 ORDER II. HEMIPTERA. GRASSHOPPER. It would have been pleasant to have seen so fine a light in our lanes and fields in the eveni...ng ; but we are not without our fine sights in Britain. But were you not going to speak of the CiCADiE, or Grasshopper tribe ? I was. They are found in almost every part of the world ; but they are larger, and louder in their song in the warmer climates than they are with us. A traveller in Africa informs us, that he has heard their notes when half-a-mile distant from them ; and one in a room has made so much noise, that the persons present could not hear each other's voices. In Java, there is a grasshop- per wliich makes a sound as loud as a trumpet.
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