of a different kind from the rest of the sticks,and Flora and Helen both laughed as they watched the curiouswalker, lifting one little stem and then another, and putting themdown slowly as it stepped along on the table among the grasses andgolden-rod. Oh, one little branch is broken off! said… … Helen looked at him very carefully with her microscope. Thejoints look just like the joints of rushes, she said. There is thehead and then twelve more parts in all, to the body. The lowerhalf of the long legs has four or five little joints, counting from thefoot. The eyes are the funniest things…
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