New ideas for work and play; what a girl can make and do (1902)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, joint author · New York, Scribner's · leaf 421
. After a time thisskin was also discarded, an-other and another, until, we are told, six times his garmentwas changed while yet he was deep in the earth, with noone to see and admire his new attire. Then when seven-teen long years were passed and his days of preparationwere accomplished, he dug… … Cicada and Shell. Some of Our Out-door Neighbors 373 he had lived so long was his goal, and up this he made hisway for some distance , then, forcing his little claws into thebark, he clung to his place awaiting his final transformation. Presently his nymph-skin opened down the back and thecicada, a…
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